You're right about the perception problem. I've only messed with a handful of the two stroke snowblower single stages. The issue was trying to get it perfect and not knowing the factory setting for the low idle screw. A low idle screw on a no throttle machine was the weirdness. Since it was a second hand machine and I had taken the carb off and cleaned it I wanted to get the factory settings for a known start. Since posting I asked a few more dealers and they did not know. I did not know if the prior owner had messed with the setting so wondered what the factory called for.
I messed with the low idle setting for a while running it up and down trying to find its limits and one to two turns out seemed to be its range for best running.
It ran well enough. I was just trying to get that last max. The ash as Borat suggested checking was fine.
This message was modified Apr 29, 2008 by trouts2