Troy-Bilt 4-Cycle Curve Shaft Gas String Trimmer…

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The new Troy-Bilt® 4-cycle string trimmer was engineered from the ground up to be easy to start and maintain. And, you still don`t have to mix oil and gas with our 4-stroke engine technology.
Model numbers on current (1997 and later) Troy-Bilt equipment are usually 11 characters in length and can be made up of a combination of numbers, dashes, or letters. Model numbers are typically formatted like this: 11AA111A111.

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The head will not spin on Troy Built weed eatter
ANSWER : Sounds like your flex cable has taken a trip south. Pull the shaft off the head and take a look at the flex cable. If flex cable is ok, they your clutch is defective.

Troy built weed eater won’t feed line
ANSWER : Check the size of the line,(OD), make sure you are using the correct size, sometimes cheap line will be problematic, also, you said you are re-stringing it, try a new batch of string, the old string inside the hub can get chaffed and will stick to itself…

STRING KEEPS BREAKING ON A TROY BILT WEED EATER TB539E
ANSWER : Take a look at the hole in the spool where the business end of the string comes through. There should be a smooth metal grommet or smooth short tube there. If the metal is missing, then the string is breaking because it rubs against plastic and heats up very quickly. Or the tube or grommet might have a rough or sharp spot. You might be able to polish it up with a Dremmel type of tool.

What size trimmer string does a husqvarna 223L weed eater use
ANSWER : This string trimmer will use .080 trimmer line

I put to much oil in my weed eater, lot of blue smoke came out, then it stopped. if i pour some of the oil out and let it cool off will it be ok
ANSWER : Should be ok drain oil to correct level remove spark plug clean and dry plug,with plug out crank over to remove oil from cylender,make sure air filter did not get oil soaked if dry reinstall if wet replace. reinstall spark plug and start probably will smoke untill it burns off residual oil in muffler hope this helps

Want stay running
ANSWER : Try ajusting carb did get better.if no rebuild carb and ajust carb again should fix your problem low needle 1 turn out and high needle 1 1/2 turns out this will get it runing and you might ajust again run full throttle to ajust high needle.let me know if this help you.ok

My weed eater hedge trimmer runs for about 10 minutes and cuts off. It seems as though it is flooded, because it won’t start again until some time later. But it continues with the same pattern. I purchased a can of premixed gas/oil to make sure it was my mixture, to no avail. I have not replaced the spark plug yet, but I don’t think that has anything to do with it. Do you have any suggestions?
ANSWER : The plug can be the problem but also the air mix as well get the best plug you can

Trot Bilt 4 cycle weed eater catches, but wont run.
ANSWER : Rebuild carb to fix problem.let me know if this help you.ok