STIHL Leaf Blower with NO POWER. BOGS DOWN. How to Fix

[@TS-ps3dt]

OK now I have to be that guy. You are amazing. I had been trying for the last year to get this thing up and running. I had to use me electric leaf blower. Decided to do another search and today I saw your video. did what was said. I also made sure I followed the correct start procedure. Took out the spark arrestor. Started the leaf blower without the spark arrestor in place. The leaf blower ran well and had power without the spark arrestor removed. So I cleaned the spark arrestor with my blow torch. I waited for the spark arrestor to cool so I could handle the cleaned spark arrestor. After the spark arrestor was properly cooled to handle I was able to re-install the spark arrestor in the spark arrestor spot. I was able to re-start the leaf blower with the cleaned spark arrestor in place and was able to blow leaves and yard debris to my little hearts content. So thank you on the dirty spark arrestor advice. It surely sparked my interest. You arrested my fears. Thank you

[@Thelawncarenut]

Spark arrestor was my nickname in high school

[@ColonelK0rn1]

Awesome! Now I know what to do if I really want to irritate the neighbors early on the weekend. Thanks Connor 👍🏼

[@j.shelbymerchant3449]

This was great! Worked perfectly and I also used the blow torch. After buying all the sparkplug, air filter and fuel filter package, I was at a loss. Many thanks - This is how the internet is supposed to work; a community to help each other.

[@vincentpicpic]

lmao, i tore mine appart, changed the gaskets and all. just to finally realize you had the answer with this very simple trick. guess i learned along the way so i'm no to mad about it :) thanks for your video, save me a lot of time and money

[@johnfetter3252]

Connor, have you considered putting little handlebar mustaches on your flamingos?? TheLawnCareNut will go completely, well, NUTS!!

[@MassiveSwordAndCards]

Thank you so much for this. This blower sucks but I have to use it 10 hours a day for work. It clogs up after only about 30 hours of use... so this is a godsend. Now I have POWER!!!

[@Trap..house.]

A customer just brought me a backpack blower with no power , found this video right away and This fixed the issue! We chose to remove it completely ✔️appreciate the video!

[@masonwaderomans6414]

Thanks! One of the very few times in the history of KZbin that actually was helpful, understandable, and didn’t leave me more confused than I started! And yes the spark arrestor was the problem! Great fix!

[@bdon702]

This is amazing. Couldn't for the life of me figure out why my stihl blower had so much less power, gonna try this when I get home

[@tonyjaime9863]

Just saved me over $300 in 2 minutes. Thanks

[@MADDFAC3]

After being discouraged for weeks that my shredder vac had lost all power, I replaced the air filter which did nothing. I saw this video today while on my way to a job. I turned and went back home, pulled the spark arrestor out and put the torch to it. My blower is back to full power. This was unbelievable. Thank you for your video.

[@lawnrebel]

Yes it is night and day difference in power. I just also did my string trimmer

[@MADDFAC3]

I’m going to attempt it on my trimmers next.

[@jameshumig4531]

Spent a couple years thinking about what was wrong with the stupid thing, spraying the carburetor, cleaning the filter, spark plug... Should have just searched. Torch did the trick. Was ready to get rid of it, but works like new now! Thanks!

[@marks2631]

Many thanks, I have two stihl blowers, that were running crappie! I cleaned the spark arrestors on both using your method, and now they both run like new again, you saved me a lot of time & money, thank you again.

[@MikeinVirginia1]

I lost power on my Stihl 55 leaf blower. I had this exact problem. Thank you! I cleaned my spark suppressor with gasoline and it cleaned right up. I let it dry, and re-installed it. Runs great now! 🙂

[@lawnrebel]

Amazing how good it works

[@kennethcooley9917]

@@lawnrebel Mathew McConaughey: well alright, alright.... You got the Sand Desert Eagle 85 wind Blower doing a trip,🤣🤣🤣. Sup Connor Pal ???😜

[@richardrogowski4921]

If we lived close I would buy you a beer! I was about to go and buy a new blower! Worked perfectly! Thank you!

[@deramonbmw]

Genius. It took longer watch the video than it did to fix the problem. You are right on target.

[@cfglazier]

Wow that was exactly what was wrong with my Stihl leaf blower and the fix worked perfectly. Strange that this issue is not mentioned in the Stihl owners manual. Thanks for the video.

[@kenneth0795]

Omg, thank you. My blower was doing the same thing. Gave up on it. Now it's all better wooohoooo

[@maxbane9415]

Thank you! Had exact same problem with BG 86. That was it!

[@dealtdeal1353]

Same here on my bg86 as well.

[@chetbarney6635]

Thanks...I knew KZbin wouldn't disappoint. I'm going to go out and torch my spark-arrestor right now!

[@ShannonRMcKenzie]

Thank you mate - this was an awesome tip and worked a treat for my BG 86C - I was ready to take this up to the dealership to have repaired but you just saved me a bunch of money!

[@brandonhebert5485]

I have a Husqvarna BT130 backpack blower and it did the same thing this guys blower did. I thought he was nuts but I went and pulled the spark arrester off and now that thing runs like a scalded ape. It also sounds a lot better too! Thanks Connor!

[@JC-ln6on]

Don’t need a torch if you don’t have one - I used a water based, rust inhibitive heavy duty degreaser(All Purpose Prepaint Degreaser by Great Lakes Labs, if you’re interested) to loosen the contaminant once the arrestor was free(just dropped it in a shallow cup of the stuff, undiluted) Put in vice, light steel brush, dropped back into degreaser bath, and hit with a little non-chlorinated brake cleaner to knock anything off that wasn’t metal, and good as new. You could probably just use the brake cleaner and steel brush. Or just the steel brush. I overdo things... Point is, if you don’t have a torch, you don’t need one! Oh, and great video! Very helpful.

[@gizanked]

My leaf backpack stihl just started sputtering out like this and now I need to go check the spark arrestor DING. glad you made thus how to!

[@WaveAction777]

Good to see the blower works just fine now. I just got rid of the mesh altogether & never put it back on a Stihl concrete saw I got real cheap for this particular reason.

[@dloman84]

Thank you. I cleaned the carb and replaced filters and common sense things. I didn't know anything about the spark arrestor. (Spark Arrestor #12) lol

[@paultanner2007]

Oh hell I have been binge watching these videos every since I finished dinner this evening. But what a great channel! Thanks Connor!

[@troybecnel8267]

dude you rock. full power now. thanks for sharing

[@Iabeerbrewer]

Your welcome Connor!! Glad I could help.All your vids have helped ME immensely!!

[@stephendavies6375]

No all heros wear capes! Thanks man. I just used my compressor to blow it out, works great now!

[@jcrowgey668]

Thanks! Replaced the spark arrester and my blower runs like the day I got it, would not have known to check it without your video.

[@shawncody4660]

Your a legend you just saved me a new Blower 2 sec fix and all fixed thank you

[@anthonyrandall797]

i just fixed my blower, easy peasy. thanks mate

[@straightgrain6614]

Worked! Used blow torch to clean and fired right up and revved properly! Thanks!

[@shawneakins]

Thanks dude, that was such an easy fix! What would we do without KZbin! Appreciate you posting this.

[@antonreyment9841]

OMG what a difference. This should be in the handbook of essential life skills, or at least in the manual that came with my blower.

[@dathuynh1377]

thank you. saves me tons of time. like some in here, i just got rid of the mesh and screwed the 'muffler' back on

[@BT-xm4cq]

Great tip Connor I have a Echo but its all the same as to burning off the carbon build up. I was having issues with both my blower & weed eater this took care of both. Thanks

[@drewsteinmetz7160]

Saved me a lot of aggravation. Thanks for the video!

[@I4FREEDOM]

Thanks a lot. Mines a BG 86 Stihl and works perfectly now.

[@ryaghi01]

Your instructional video has been very helpful. never thought of the arrestor.

[@neilgalyan6117]

This was the my favorite video yet. Loved the counter at the bottom. Now I know how to fix my weed eater next time. Thanks!

[@franksie2790]

Legend saved me money !!

[@JBBunno]

Thanks mate - just did mine, had no idea about this part, runs like new now

[@JonathanGrandt]

Look at you mister!!! I’m totally gonna do this.

[@chrishardwick1081]

I can’t like this enough. Thank you!

[@dl4065]

You're a life saver. This is exactly what was wrong with mine. Thanks!!!!!!

[@sebastiansorbello1624]

It worked a treat. THANKYOU SOOO MUCH. AWESOME INFORMATIVE VIDEO.

[@timothyseidel527]

Great video, your solution worked an absolute treat, thanks heaps. I havnt read through all the comments so this may have already been suggested, but as I didnt have access to a similar blow torch or oxy acetylene torch at the time, I instead 'borrowed' the wifes butane chefs torch from the kitchen. Turns out this worked completely perfectly. I guess the only catch would be to make sure not to tell the wife.

[@seanlehtimaki9056]

Hey Conner, With all of our two stroke small engines their meant to be used wide open, The more we feather the throttle the more those screens clog... (if you keep it on) it was a common problem at the lawn mower shop I worked at, we tried teaching the customers but they kept bringing em in...lol

[@lawnrebel]

Ha ha. Good to know this

[@andrewdavies5352]

More money for you I guess

[@ernestmatacotta6880]

Worked perfectly. Thank you.

[@dontmindthatthere]

I'll be right back gotta get my blower and weed wacker out of the trash........

[@mkaa05]

Ya made my day....AS GOOD AS NEW AGAIN!! THANK YOU!!!

[@WootGui]

Worked as suggested! Thank you

[@heyvetcor]

Had Stihl blower loss of power problem today.. After checking everything else, removed spark arrestor and it ran at full power. I may leave it out. Not that much difference in sound level. Blower is only a couple years old, so kind of surprised it became clogged so quickly. Thanks for the tip!

[@binzsdre2398]

Did it still work fine with out the spark aresster for a long time?

[@andreag396]

Thank you your suggestion worked a treat!!

[@danc9937]

Ah legend!! Thank you for this video, very helpful!

[@joelhenderson5526]

Good stuff Conner!

[@scottmassie4648]

Thanks, Connor. Works Great.

[@johnkast7987]

Excellent video! This worked perfectly and exactly as shown.

[@justins9532]

A wire brush works pretty well too. I like getting the bulk off with the wire brush then torch the rest off.

[@yamteo]

Thank you very much your trick work superb for my blower. After changing spark plug and air filter it doesn’t work. Did the blow torch on the spark arrestor and it work like new. Thanks again

[@lawnrebel]

Awesome. So glad that it helped

[@jeremiahbrinsko7811]

That’s actually pretty interesting that’s good to know I could tell my boss that if anything happened like this

[@robboston7157]

Thank you! Mine was doing the same thing, gave the spark arrestor the torch treatment and it’s running like new.

[@lawnrebel]

So good to hear. I just did this same thing on my gas trimmer

[@SwayNotZay]

You should put a disclaimer for those who remove it entirely. The spark arrestor is there to catch burning pieces that could ( if removed as you suggested ) start a fire.

[@mpburbster]

Worked for me! Thanks!

[@trytryandtryagain52]

Excellent. Fixed my problem.

[@markjahn5037]

I had a similar problem and checked the spark arrestor and it was clean and it ended up being the gas, after putting fresh gas in it ran better. I use my blower very infrequently and tend to use the premix high octane with ethanol eliminated so that wasn't my original thought but by adding fresh gas it helped.

[@phillammi2870]

Brilliant! Thank you!

[@Norbert091081]

Hi Connor, i told my wife about your flamingos...i ordered 6 pieces Today...you see, you have Fans all over the world...also in Germany

[@Two_Buck]

Awesome, thanks. I hope this works for my Ryobi which seems to have the same problem.

[@SamSon-zj6sw]

Thanks for your information it helped blower work good 👍 Thanks

[@oscalealvisl]

Great video 👍🏽

[@jaimatony]

thanks buddy. it works now

[@alvega2]

Thank you, it worked!!

[@user-jy9mo7rm2c]

Thank you....great video....

[@JorgeRamirez-wz6gw]

Thanks my brother I’ll try it won’t blower . Hod bless you

[@ponchosan9180]

Very helpful! Appreciate the video. Thank you!

[@outerspaceslandscapellc]

im with john fetter about putting the staches on the flamingos.

[@adalbertogarcia680]

Tanks GOD bless you more it works 💪👷

[@SupaStah01]

If you dont have the tool, 5/8 (16mm) socket works. My screen was clean. If yours is too when you take it off, youll need a new carborator to fix the bogging down.

[@pipinator45]

Perfect fix. Thanks!

[@jessejamesdallas]

Next time it clogs-up, cut off that screen on the spark arrestor with a hacksaw or cut-off wheel and be done with it...You will never have to worry about a clogged arrestor again....I cut mine off 2 years ago on my SH56c blower and it's been working like new ever since.

[@stewbintn]

Thanks! I have a 12+ year old BG55 that started running poorly, with no power. I expected a much more involved fix. Burned off the spark arrestor and runs like new!

[@jcooper43]

Dangit! I gave my Echo PB 250 away for parts, and it sounded JUST LIKE THIS!! Btw, Spark Arrestor

[@elconconcreting4768]

Thanks so much for that video , just done what you did and worked straight away 👍🏽

[@papichulo9499]

Thank you so much

[@tommieaho761]

Always a pleasure watching your vids :)

[@slavikpidkova5463]

Thank you 🙏🏻

[@ErsinGokay]

thank you for sharing sir

[@markpemble6513]

Thank you! Perfect solution for mone

[@mikenco]

I have the next model up, it doesn't have a spark arrestor. I will remove the exhaust and check if it's clogged.

[@Framed1980]

Forgot about that. I chuck all of my 2 stroke arrestors from brand new. The next thing that goes is the trigger pull at the carby. 4 years of commercial use tho.

[@bastealth20]

Thanks man, was about to chuck my stihl in a ditch and call it a day

[@stevepeet9841]

What was that little part called?

[@ryeguy01]

A filter, he said it at the end.

[@lawnrebel]

Yeah. A filter

[@KD0LRG]

Spark Arrestor

[@mypony891]

Lol, thanks for the count on the spark arrestor

[@coreyhamilton6485]

Amazing 🎉

[@andrewdavies5352]

So I’ve tried this in the past and it’s worked great up until the last time I did it now I have a problem where the blower will go to max power for a few seconds and then suddenly I get a drop in power Any ideas on how to fix this