The axle attachments on my trimmer are bending in, allowing the axle to move sideways and making it difficult to push. Any fixes available?
1370247
saw that right away, added lrg washers or hard plastic spacers and have not had any problems.
1370248
If you are refering to tabs bolted under the engine that the axel slides into? Suggest remove one wheel assembly and axel. Bend tabs back to straightend position. Measure carefully the space between tabs. Go to local hardware hardware and purchase a piece of pipe that length and diameter to allow axel to slide through (probably 1/2" / and no threads). Re assemble placing pipe between tabs. We love our Poulan and had not encountered this. Now looking at ours we can see it starting to do what yours is. This is what we will do. Thanks for heads up!
1370249
Well this is really a design flaw that can be easily fixed by the addition of thick washers to prevent the axle from moving sideways. It took 2 on one side and one on the other to eliminate the potential problem. My machine has something over two years of rather hard almost abusive use and I've had no problem.
90457
You may want to look for a lift with new springs. This lift just used spacers. It will lift it but you will still have the rake. You could do a 2" front only leveling kit if you were looking for a cheap way to eliminate the rake. Hope that helps.
823097
If you don't have any luck contacting Round 2, you can either make your own axles out of heavy wire or contact other model builders via a forum such as Model Cars Magazine or Scale Auto. Lots of hobbyists have spare parts and may be able to help out.
1705248
I am sorry I cannot help you. My neighbor does this stuff for me. I am mechanically challenged.
2134707
I have had the same problem with the main belt falling off. It appears that the large and small pulleys are not lined up forcing the belt to ride on the edge of the large pulley nearest the blades. There seems to be no way to align the pulleys. Next stop is the dealer.
2051598
Dear, Unfortunately yes, another issue is that the accessory for adjusting the fine trimming is not working also(design deficiency) which make it really useless trimmer. Regards,
37831
I do not know if your trimmer is a straight shaft or curved. The straight shaft worked great on my Echo & the curved wobbled too bad to use it on my Hitachi.
481531
try pushing the wheels in tighter; they're supposed to snap in. you need to use some strength. put some elbow grease into it man.
937167
Bop button on bottom of trimmer head. If that doesn't work take the string out and rewind it. Might be wound in opposite direction
768709
The trimmer line will not advance automatically. You have to manually take off the trimmer replacement head and manually unwrap the line and then string it through the head while trying to keep the line from unraveling from around the trimmer head. I true pain in the rear. if you want to be very frustrated and not be able to use it to trim, but need a great paperweight in the garage, then buy it. I am putting mine out on the curb for garbage pickup tommorow.
1249888
There should be some bolts with locking nuts on them at the swivel joints. I have had to loosen those just a very small amount. Also I have just moved it by hand to limber it up.
877782
I too thought that the gearbox was broken. Turns out the gearbox speed change mechanism sometimes wouldn't engage fully whether pushing or pulling. Make the belts are aligned and the clutch knob is secure first. I found that if I spun the blade pulley slowly by hand while firmly engaging the clutch knob the internal gears would engage and viola! I now had the new speed. In time the gears should wear-in enough that speed changing will become much easier. I also make sure that power is disconnected from the saw before I grab the pulleys. Don't want to damage or lose any fingers.-Bud,
39531
The saw has a drive belt and I bet yours is a bit stretched. Easy to replace. Check your owners manual for belt replacement - might be on page 37. That should do the trick for you.
1579410
The company web sit may have that info. Meantime, flatten it in vise and maybe use a washer over it. A local machine shop would make a better one for a couple bucks
122775
I'm assuming that the part that was loose was the main head that holds the shears. I have looked atone and can't see how that would bind up the shears. So contact Pactool on that. The shears themselves I would say back out a 1/4 turn and try that, if that frees up the problem all is good. If your afraid of it coming loose again, remove bolt and put a drop of blue Lock Tite on threads and reinstall. Don't use Red as it sets really hard and takes a heat gun ta remove. The nice thing bout Pactool is the replaceable shears.
1810946
It could be that the linkage was not correctly positioned. Mine (Doorman) was also difficult, I had the linkage on backwards.
954846
That could be difficult as the machine is a bit difficult to push. I've never used mine on that severe an angle. I use a hand held line trimmer in a harness for that type of slope.