How to Start a Stihl Leaf Blower?

Cleaning outside your house or compound entails a good amount of work, and can be challenging. Autumn seasons or the normal days of cutting your lawn or other plants surrounding your home is one of the most stressing tasks on the calendar if you are an individual who likes to keep his or her house surroundings clean at all times. Now having a such a zealous task at hand, one certainly agrees making use of a stihl leaf blower to help ease the job or make it much faster. However not all of us know how to start a stihl leaf blower.

How to Start a Stihl Leaf Blower

A stihl Leaf blower, just like any other leaf blower is a gardening tool or machine that is purposely designed to move debris such as leaves, and grass cuttings by oozing air out of a nozzle. The air that comes out of the nozzle, directs or push grass cuttings and leaves in to a pile to be gathered later or to a designated place. Stihl leaf blowers are a reliable and trustworthy gardening equipment’s for the blowing of your leaves as they are durable, easy to use and lasts almost forever.

Usage of a stihl leaf blower

Step-1 : Fill your stihl leaf blower with a gas and oil mixture. The mix of the gas and oil should be done in a small gas can, by pouring the gas and oil in to it, and gently shake it so as to uniformly mix the oil into the gas. You might have the four-cycle engine, so check on that and if it does, fill it with only straight gas. 

Step-2 : To start your Stihl leaf blower, push the primer bulb in and out slowly 5 to 6 times. Then, close the choke lever (make sure it’s already in the “on” position). Finally, pull the starting cord once. You may need to use a little force to get it started on the first try, but if not, try again until it gears up. Once it’s started, open the choke lever partially by moving it to the halfway point between “open” and “close.”

How to Start a Stihl Leaf Blower

Step-3 : After starting your engine, allow it to run for at least 10 seconds. If your model needs more time, run the engine with a partially closed choke for up to 30 seconds. Then, move the choke lever to the open position. In some cases, your engine may stall. If this happens, pull the starting cord again to restart the engine. Once the engine is restarted, allow it to warm up for 20 seconds before shifting the choke to the open position.

In some cases where you will need to cold start your stihl leaf blower. In cold starting;

  • Firstly, turn the choke to the “cold start” position. There is the warm starting option is also available, so it is easy to know where to place your choke for each function.
  • Once the choke is placed in the right position, in this case “cold start”, you simply start your stihl leaf blower, release the throttle and the choke returns to its proper position.

It is recommended to always make use of a fresh gasoline at all times for your stihl leaf blower, and if your gas is old, make sure to drain it and replace it with a fresh one. Most gas leaf blowers make use of the mixture of both gas and cycle oil. The mixing of the gas with oil should be done accurately as mixing of too much oil with the gas, would just end you with starting problems.

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