I had a limb fall out of one of my hickory trees a couple of weeks ago. Temps being in the high 90's I just got around to cutting it up yesterday. Fired up the 261, made short work of it and a couple of other stuff that needed cut. Total run time about ten minutes. After tossing the cuts on the wood pile, the wife was trimming some shrubs and had limb to big for the loppers. I went to start the 261, and it would not hit. Double checked I was in the start position, and pulled somemore. After about half a dozen more pulls I knew it was flooded. I proceeded to do flooded saw start. Second pull it popped, forth pull it fired and died. Pulled again and it fired on the second pull. Revved it up made the cut and shut it down. Started right back up no problems. Never had a problem starting this saw in the past. Fluke, issue, who knows, just thought I'd through it out to the masses.
For 'warm' starts with both of my MT saws, I will pick it up, flick it on (in the case of the 441, the 261 is always ready in 'Run') and give it two pulls. If it doesn't start THEN I'll go to the "start" position and go from there. Has been flawless to date.
That is how I did it when I first got the saw. However after reviewing the start procedure it says to the start setting for all starts.
When I really get going for the season, I am going to try doing it "by the book" and see if trouble arises.
Must be an m-tronic problem, I have never heard of someone flooding a regular old school stihl. Haha. Sounds like you got it figured out. Every one that pulls on my Stihl 361 floods it. Two pulls on choke when cold and then to high idle, if you wait for the pop it won't start.
I was gonna say these auto tune seem to be easy to flood. Old school l ones are simple and fool proof. And our saws on the fire trucks get labeled as they have fowled plugs as the idiot kids who think they know it all yank and yank on the ms290s we have while on choke and won't put it to high idle after the pop. They can't ever get them started...must be fools Have to explain to all of them how to start a saw??
I flooded the 576 AT I had after port work. Don't know why it did it,. Swapped plugs and it was on then.
Never had a problem with cold starts (441 was as low as -5° this past winter). I ran the 261 yesterday and it was close to 90°. I don't use the Mtronic any different than old school. Heck, the saw was "cold" after I finished the tree yesterday and decided to take the stump a little lower. Just pulled it once and it came to life. This was probably an hour after I dropped it and bucked it. I think that there has been such an issue with the 562xp hot starts, that there is to much thought put into the Hot start of any MT/AT saw. My suggestion, would be to use it like any old saw you have. If it's been ran recently? Just pull..
I was javin the same issues..tryn to start it from start and not run..it seemed like it wanted to load up..i recal it...now...cold..press deco..and im not kidding..1 pull and she starts lopin.....
