Hugh Jampton wrote:
On Sun, 07 Jun 2009 12:52:11 +0200, David in Normandy wrote:

Ditto with my Ryobi strimmer. I've left mixed fuel in it over Winter and
it doesn't seem to have had any detrimental effects and it still runs
with the old fuel anyway. I just top it up as necessary with pre-mixed 2
stroke.

I got my Ryobi last year. It was never easy to start then and would not
start at all this year (left with fuel in over winter). I drained all the
old fuel out and put new in - it started !

Could be I'm doing something wrong - any ideas ?

The only problem I did have starting mine turned out to be the spark
plug. For a while it was temperamental to start and to keep running,
finally it wouldn't start at all. On removing the spark plug I
discovered the ceramic bit had broken and was loose. New spark plug and
it was fine. Maybe your spark plug ceramic has cracked like mine did?


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