Hey,
Hoping someone can help me identify what's in the pictures below. Here's some background.
I had been splitting for about 3 or 4 hours on Thursday when my Husky 22 Ton splitter sputtered and died. I won't kill you with all the details but I ran through all the regular stuff, spark, fuel etc. The only thing I could determined after 20 mins or so was that for all the pulling on the starter cord I was doing, the plug didn't seem very wet. I also noticed that the plug was super clean like it was running very lean\hot.
I took the carb off, cleaned it out, tried things again and still no luck.
So, then I went in deeper, removed the top shroud, cover, gas tank, carb etc.
On the unit, there is a pipe than goes from the "back" side of the carburetor, to the intake area on the cylinder head. I noticed that this pipe was kind of loose and rattling around. I tried to tighten it, but I noticed the bolts were bottomed out and that it still rattled around, so I decided to remove the two bolts on the cylinder that attached the pipe. When I removed the bolts and took this pipe off, I noticed there was no gasket which I though was odd since fuel\air and inducted through here and to the intake valve.
Spinning the flywheel I noticed that the intake valve was not moving, The valves\piston on this configuration move horizontally with the intake valve above the exhaust valve. Earlier, I could see the exhaust valve was opening and closing when I had the spark plug out and pulled the starter cord.
Looking closer, I saw there was something under the valve stem. Using a clothes hanger I was able to fish the below pictured items out. As soon as I got the first piece out, the valve snapped shut so I figured I was onto something.
I used some high temp rtv to make a gasket between the pipe and the intake port on the cylinder head, put things back together and the splitter started up on the first pull and I put two tanks of gas through it last night splitting. It is running very nice and even with no loss in power. If anything, it is running more even than I seem to remember it running lately.
The only thing I can think of is that these bits are whats left of a gasket between the cylinder head and intake pipe that somehow melted and was sucked in? The bits are too big to fit through the venturi in the carb, so I am sure they did not come from outside. I'm very curious about what these could be so if you have an idea, I would appreciate it.
Hoping someone can help me identify what's in the pictures below. Here's some background.
I had been splitting for about 3 or 4 hours on Thursday when my Husky 22 Ton splitter sputtered and died. I won't kill you with all the details but I ran through all the regular stuff, spark, fuel etc. The only thing I could determined after 20 mins or so was that for all the pulling on the starter cord I was doing, the plug didn't seem very wet. I also noticed that the plug was super clean like it was running very lean\hot.
I took the carb off, cleaned it out, tried things again and still no luck.
So, then I went in deeper, removed the top shroud, cover, gas tank, carb etc.
On the unit, there is a pipe than goes from the "back" side of the carburetor, to the intake area on the cylinder head. I noticed that this pipe was kind of loose and rattling around. I tried to tighten it, but I noticed the bolts were bottomed out and that it still rattled around, so I decided to remove the two bolts on the cylinder that attached the pipe. When I removed the bolts and took this pipe off, I noticed there was no gasket which I though was odd since fuel\air and inducted through here and to the intake valve.
Spinning the flywheel I noticed that the intake valve was not moving, The valves\piston on this configuration move horizontally with the intake valve above the exhaust valve. Earlier, I could see the exhaust valve was opening and closing when I had the spark plug out and pulled the starter cord.
Looking closer, I saw there was something under the valve stem. Using a clothes hanger I was able to fish the below pictured items out. As soon as I got the first piece out, the valve snapped shut so I figured I was onto something.
I used some high temp rtv to make a gasket between the pipe and the intake port on the cylinder head, put things back together and the splitter started up on the first pull and I put two tanks of gas through it last night splitting. It is running very nice and even with no loss in power. If anything, it is running more even than I seem to remember it running lately.
The only thing I can think of is that these bits are whats left of a gasket between the cylinder head and intake pipe that somehow melted and was sucked in? The bits are too big to fit through the venturi in the carb, so I am sure they did not come from outside. I'm very curious about what these could be so if you have an idea, I would appreciate it.
