I got my log splitter carb back on Friday. Ruppie repair did a great job as always . The guy's last name is Ruplinger, but we all call him Ruppie. He's always inexpensive but very thorough. He only charged $10 in labor but it's basically a new carb now. All cleaned , New bowl, primer, needle and seat, all gaskets, and new fuel line. I put a new fuel filter on and also cleaned out the fuel tank to ensure there was no gunk in it. It started right up, but I'll have to mess with the linkage again. I just increased the idle and split the ash rounds on high idle. No issues but I'll get it set properly. I just wanted to split the wood I had and get it stacked. Load 1 ready to haul and stack. Load 2 There's still a bit left to split, but probably just under another trailer load. I should get this done tomorrow probably. I found a YouTube video with the proper linkage settings. Right now on don't have anything to the throttle plate, should be pretty easy to fix now.
Yes, he's a good guy too. Ex Yamaha factory snowmobile race team mechanic. It was 42 bucks with 32 in parts, 10 in labor. The stupid Tecumseh seat tool is over half what the parts were. Not worth my time and he's good. That linkage is just a pita. To get to that, the top plate held on by a couple of small screws and the throttle lever is on that plate too. The governor linkage with the spring is the one I lost. Yesterday's outside temperature was much colder than they expected, wind chills in the teens. Once it gets warmer it will probably be a 5 min job. The thing is, this ash wood splits so easy that even only a 5 hp on high idle splits it pretty easily. Now if I had a bunch of honey locust, then I'd need the linkage how it's supposed to be so I can go higher rpm running. I'm watching the USA/ Canada hockey game, then I'll go out and see what I can do. I've got wood to stack from the trailer, and more wood to split.
Here's the 2nd load stacked. I have a number of uglies that I'll stack at the top. That's ladder work. I'll get outside and split the rest of my stack up. That should do it for the left bay
Ok. I split up all the rest of what I have here. It should fill the left bay. It was probably colder than yesterday with the wind. Ill wait until it's not so cold to get the carb throttle linkage right. A piece of splitter shrapnel held it in the perfect spot for a nice operating rpm.
