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Old 05-25-2010, 10:04 PM
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Originally Posted by Scarebird View Post
Same thing the other day with a Poulan weed trimmer: started it up, ran for about 2 minutes, steadily decreasing rpm's no matter what choke setting. Wouldn't restart - Poulan has a 800 number, but sorry guys, one shot is what you get. I took it back to Fred Meyers and got a Husky from the local mower shop.

I was suspicious of the Poulan as the muffler had no blacking, showing that it was not test run. 2 minutes testing at the factory would have caught this - now it gets to go back thru the return process or simply tossed; sad.
as you'll invariably find yourself "poulan and poulan" trying to get their junk started! Ask me how I know.

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