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question re Stihl 019T chainsaw

18 years ago

Impulsively, I bought a used Stihl 019T chainsaw from an elderly couple having a garage sale. The man said his wife wanted some spending money for a trip so she picked out tools her husband hadn't used in a long time. It looked like he was making a joke through his pain!

The chainsaw will run for five to twenty seconds before it dies. I suspect it's probably just a fuel line or a fuel filter or the carb is gummed up. I've fixed this on old Poulans. I've never owned a Stihl before and I've never worked on a Stihl. The 019T is a different layout and I'm not sure where to begin dismantling it to get at the carb and fuel lines.

I'm always prepared to just start unscrewing things and see what happens. But before I do that. Can anyone point me at an online source with some diagrams?