Questions & Answers for: Homelite hard starting hot

hard starting, bogging down and dying, etc. Disassembled the carburetor and cleaned it, as well as the fuel lines and screen in the fuel tank. Nothing helped. Then, similar to mikehandyman solution #2

...If the diaphragms get hard (from sitting with gas in carb or hot weather) they won't allow fuel into cylinder to produce an explosion. if you need parts or more assistance email ...

...Then even when it's hot I still have to go to full choke to restart. This things a year old but I hardly use it due to it's performance. My gas mixture is good, it doesn't smoke due to being to

...gasket opening up or blown rebuid or replace gasket check for severe scorch in cylinder bore only when hot is your clue expansion leak pressure Boom dies out hard to pull is expansion of ...

...starting to adjust the high & low speed jets to make sure that the chain is not too tight thus placing to much of a load on the engine and not too loose. a tight chain makes the saw turn too hard ...

...hard to start back after used for a while. What is the problem actually? coil failing when hot or the spark plug same reason carby fuel vaporizing in combustion cylinder rings loosing compression due ...