Stihl 011 AVT Chainsaw Won't Idle

In this video we will look at a Stihl 011 AVT chainsaw with a customer complaint that it won't idle. There are many reasons this is possible so lets see if this will be a simple fix. #smallenginerepair
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[@marriedwithsmallengines]

Hi Scott, thank you for the shout out!! 😊

[@MartinStockel]

I watch your channel all the time and Scott is right you are a fantastic Stihl chainsaw tech. Hope winter has not frozen you to the ground yet.

[@TheGreasyShopRag]

You're welcome. Its well deserved!

[@magnuslindvall]

Both your channel and Ericas are my first watch when I open KZbin every day. You guys are so professional great producers. I learn so much from you guys!

[@TheGreasyShopRag]

@@magnuslindvall Glad to hear it. Thanks for watching!

[@wrayjordan8315]

Really enjoy the way you narrate your repair. Very helpful!

[@TheGreasyShopRag]

Thanks and Thanks for watching!

[@TheVespap200e]

First Schmutz now Poop! The life of a chain saw mechanic! Thanks for the video Scott!

[@TheGreasyShopRag]

Ya right...whats next? Hopefully nothing that came out of the back side of an animal :-(

[@karlschwab6437]

As always, I like your style and philosophy on repairing small engines. I enjoy doing it for a hobby on the trash lawn care engines that I find or are giving to me. Again, your style of repairing them, I find helpful. Thanks for sharing.

[@TheGreasyShopRag]

Thanks, and thanks for watching!

[@deniscarter6613]

Scott your Right Erica has excellent video's i still can't believe the state some people leave chainsaw's in for repair that are Brutalised and badly looked after like a chainsaw that's over 1,400 and its nearly broken up left in to be repaired and the handles hanging off bushings broken and the air filter and all around the carb full with sawdust if a saw was left to a shop here in Ireland they would be called out on the condition that it was left in and some place's they would be battered with the saw and told where to go if i had a saw worth over 1,400 it would be well looked after

[@TheGreasyShopRag]

I think many times its employees breaking equipment they don't own. Some days I'd like to batter a customer with his own saw and tell him where to go

[@tedneitzel]

Another great repair sir!

[@TheGreasyShopRag]

Thanks for watching!

[@johns3106]

What a dinosaur! Many, many years ago when I first started as a climbing arborist, these were our “climbing saws”. The boss didn’t want to fork out $500+ (this was 30 years ago, mind you) that the “real” Stihl climbing saw cost. Glad more reasonably priced options have come along since then!

[@TheGreasyShopRag]

This one still runs good for its age and is probably serving a home owner well. Thanks for watching!

[@wizardsofwisconsin7400]

Well done again! That’s cool that you gave Erica a shout out, we all can learn a lot from what you guys do! Saws to me are fascinating so all this is a pretty easy watch…

[@TheGreasyShopRag]

I like watching videos of people repairing saws that know what they're doing.

[@gregwilson9035]

Hi Scott, greetings from Australia 🦘🇦🇺Really enjoyed watching that. Amongst my chainsaws, I still have a Stihl 010AV from about 1987-88? First saw I ever bought. It’s a great little saw and has done a ton of work!

[@TheGreasyShopRag]

I like hearing about people still running saws they bought decades ago. Good for you keeping it going. I recently became second owner of an old Sears chainsaw purchased new in 1963. Its complete and I'm told it ran a few years ago. Maybe I'll do a carb rebuild video on it!

[@gregwilson9035]

@ that would be interesting to see!

[@alans.4658]

Thanks for another awesome video Scott. I saw Erica using the carb stand you sent her. I enjoy her video's too.

[@TheGreasyShopRag]

I kinda wish I would have painted it orange and white just to see how many people would have pestered her for a stihl part number :-)

[@chrischiampo7647]

Nice Torque on The 80’s AV Saws Excellent Repair Brother 😀 When You Take Off The Recoil You Can See a Lot of The Engine 😀

[@TheGreasyShopRag]

Thanks for tuning in!

[@steveriggenbach90]

I agree I’ve hardly used my cleaner for carbs. You have to watch for people screwing with them. She had a cool Halloween video. Saw came to life. Besides looking at the gas and filter, opening the cap relieves the pressure. Been careful for years but in hurry to change purge bulb. YEP in the eyes and mouth. LOL. Great video.

[@TheGreasyShopRag]

Thanks!

[@HayChaffandSawdust1]

Really like the carb stand you have built!!

[@TheGreasyShopRag]

Thanks. Angle iron, 1/8" rod and a magnet. Sometimes simple is best.

[@teoemme22]

Great video Scott!!!! Congratulations for your Great work!!!! Greetings from Sardinia

[@TheGreasyShopRag]

Thanks for taking the time to tune in!

[@tomintexas817]

thanks scott i have done this on 2 009L's love the carb stand.

[@TheGreasyShopRag]

Thanks for watching Tom!

[@MarkOxley-vo3kq]

Another great job, I got a lot out of that, thank you!

[@TheGreasyShopRag]

Glad to hear it. Thanks for watching!

[@burkehoward1511]

I just bought a sthil 012 avt look very similar just a different top handle for 50 bucks. I milled the baffles out on the muffler. Damn this little saw is a beast.

[@TheGreasyShopRag]

10-4. Thanks for watching!

[@academicmailbox7798]

A couple of things that I've come to appreciate about 'modern', or post 2022 Husqvarna models of top-handle tool.

[@academicmailbox7798]

I haven't clocked up enormous number of hours on my top handle tools, but I like the T540 model for it's power (I've observed quite a few of different ages, or generations come across the repair bench here). What I'd really like to have, and the Europeans use them as home owner small personal saws, is a rear-handle 540 saw. A 40cc tool, as I work a bit with rough sawn lumber and I find my 'mini' 3/8 inch tools are efficient as larger lumber 'carpentry' types of tool, to rip boards down in size that I use occassionally. There's a lot going on in this space in regards to wooden carving artists and such, which I'm not super familiar with.

[@academicmailbox7798]

This early winter time I took time to sit down and go through my entire spectrum of types of chains I have for different sizes of tools. And I took the time to actually look at the kinds of chains used on the top handle tools. There is a mini 3/8 inch chain, . . . which if I was to be honest about it, it's not unlike a 'skip tooth' chain that has been scaled down to miniature scale. In the same way as the skip tooth chain came about (Iron horse on one episode or another filled in some history of skip tooth chain evolution), because the skip tooth made it possible for smaller engine 70cc tools to pull chain through larger lumber. The mini 3/8 chain that early T540 models worked with, was something like that for top-handle tools. There must have been something like a move away from large, heavy equipment (with large vibration etc), down to what Buck'in terms the gentleman's saw, or 70cc saw around thirty odd years ago. In the logging industry. And what we've got with top handle saws, are small saws that became very powerful of the 40cc class, and these chains that enabled them to rip through lumber extremely well.

[@academicmailbox7798]

Here's the part of the story that I don't quite understand as yet. As I haven't used any of the post 2022 models of small saws yet. They've innovated something using the .325 inch pitch standard called 'mini' .325 inch chain (which on the new T540's it replaces the older 'mini' 3/8 inch chains and bars). And not only that, with the newer post 2022 models of T540, the placement of a 16-inch bar on those tools is now recommended and standard (16-inch bars, along with the previous 10-inch, 12-inch or 14-inch). I've run some Oregon 16-inch bars on my T540 Husqvarna or the 'mini' 3/8 inch variety, and I must say, not to a huge degree of success. So I changed back again to my 14-inch Husqvarna mini 3/8 inch bars and chain. And I'll stick with that, until I get around to upgrading my smaller saws (as I said, a rear-handle version of the 540 Husqvarna would be nice as a small scale ripping tool). One can drag out a portable table saw or similar, to rip down small lengths of dried lumber. However, with something like a 40cc tool, provided you've time on the tool and know how to use it, it can be useful in this application.

[@academicmailbox7798]

I don't have a huge amount of faith in sixteen inch bars on these small tools (with one single bar nut, on has to pay a lot of attention to chain tension, and making one's bar secure). But, with a sixteen inch bar for absolute certain, the tool can be made a bit more safe to work with (it's the same with 24-inch bars, compared to 20-inch bars for bucking tough hardwoods). There are two schools of thought, some hardwood cutters point to the reality that a shorter twenty inch bar is balanced, and a twenty inch bar rarely reaches down to meet where your boot toe is located. Conversely, I would say that 20-inch bars place one closer to the timber and in higher risk zones when bucking lumber. So 24-inch puts you a little further away, and gives you some more reaction time. 28-inch bars even more (but then that twenty-eight inch bar could reach down closer to where your feet or ankles could be. You see? In the top-handled saw, it's the same thing. One does think about 14-inch versus 16-inch, . . and for me, those Mark III autotune T540 tools with mini .325 pitch chain, and a full sixteen inch mini .325 inch bar on it, it might be the safest tool for what one is doing. There are things happening to the technology, even down at the small tool scale.

[@TheGreasyShopRag]

Agreed on all points. It makes me wonder what a "modern" chainsaw might look like 30 years from now.

[@cheba4786]

Nice work👍🔥

[@TheGreasyShopRag]

Thanks for watching!

[@danielpadgett2831]

I love yours and her channel

[@TheGreasyShopRag]

Thanks for watching!

[@McCullochMac6]

Sweet and simple....Nice

[@TheGreasyShopRag]

Later.

[@JohnDoe-yy5tp]

I have a stihl 009l, which looks identical to this. Putting the carb back in with gasket, how do I get the gasket to stay in place while installing the carb, it always wants to move underneath. maybe a dab of gasket maker to make it stick temporarily? Thanks in advance, awesome videos!

[@TheGreasyShopRag]

Yep, gasket maker or grease. Some might try to put the screws through and catch the gasket before setting it down.

[@JohnDoe-yy5tp]

@TheGreasyShopRag Thanks for the reply, from what I've seen on your videos, nothin ya can't fix....good job. I also removed the small gas vent screw from the line, unknowingly that is there for a reason, will this cause issues since the venting is now fully open?

[@TheGreasyShopRag]

@@JohnDoe-yy5tp It will only be a fuel leak issue.

[@williamemerson1799]

Any idea where a person might find a piston/cyl. kit for one of these? Didn't ask that gal up in Canada, cause she doesn't seem to respond to questions much. Good channel though. Neat little saws. Like to get mine going again. 👍🍻

[@TheGreasyShopRag]

I only rebuild with oem parts so if stihl doesn't offer it anymore then I'm not sure who might offer a kit. I agree, she has a good channel.

[@egtarbforestry8415]

Have one of these brand new in the original box and invoice dated 15-06 1990 costing $595.00 AUD so was expensive when available

[@TheGreasyShopRag]

Cool. Are you a collector? Do you have other older saws that are new in the box?

[@egtarbforestry8415]

Always been in to chainsaws from a young age and a arborist so have a small collection of McCulloch Jonsered as I have to many modern saws 30+ but have picked a few new ones up along the way like my prized 10-10 special edition and a 2095

[@rugerfarming5387]

later

[@larryw5429]

Anyone that brings anything in dirty would be charged extra! Like double time extra!

[@TheGreasyShopRag]

I include cleaning time when figuring the total billable hours.

[@CraigArndt]

Could at least clean it off before they brought it in. Good grief.

[@TheGreasyShopRag]

I still believe many people expect them to be cleaned during a tune up. Some get wiped down and most get blown out but units full of poop don't.

[@jimhancock5047]

That's a lot of schmutz!

[@TheGreasyShopRag]

Lol, Yep. Thanks for watching!

[@Claude-om9og]

Stihl makes a lot of nice saws but that one is butt ugly! No wonder it had poop on it!

[@TheGreasyShopRag]

LOL!