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I was finishing some limbs on my brother's ash tree this morning when my KM55R polesaw started running like chit. Needless to say I was about 30ft in the air in the bucket with just a couple of "out of reach" limbs left to do and needed that saw for just a couple more cuts when it started acting up. Would idle fine, go to rev it up and it was in the toilet. So I came down out of the lift, tried to tune it. No difference. Changed the spark plug (which didn't look too bad). No difference. Tore the your carb off and tore it down, it was clean. Put it back together, tuned it as best as I could get it to run (which was terrible). It just didn't want to breathe! Then, like a light switch, it hit me! I looked at the outlet of the muffler, and the outlet was removable. Took it out and the spark arrestor was clogged completely SHUT! Took that piece of crap spark arrestor off and got rid of it altogether, put the muffler outlet back on and like magic that polesaw was running better than new! I am a good mechanic, it just goes to show you that we all have chit-for-brains once in a while!!