Hi, all. I have a 32cc craftsman weedwacker model 358.795560 that is about 10-12 years old. Towards the end of last season, I was unable to get it started, and since it was the end of the season, I kind of ignored it until this Spring. No surprise, it still didn't start (wouldn't even make any sounds like it was trying to start). I replaced the spark plug and added new gas/oil, and still nothing. My brother-in-law, who's much handier than I, took it apart and saw that the fuel lines had disintegrated pretty badly. This caused the fuel filter to fall off, and the fuel line was likely sucking in parts of the disintegrated fuel lines. He took the carburetor apart and gave it a good cleaning (he said it was really clogged) and put in new fuel lines. After putting it back together, it would now start, but only run for about 5 seconds before it would shut off (the first time we got it started, it ran for about 10-15 seconds, but after that only about 5). I thought it might be the fuel filter being clogged (even though it looked ok), so I took that off, but no difference (didn't want to go out and buy one if it wasn't the problem). I did notice, though, that if I left it on the ground, and when it sounded like it was about to die (after 3 seconds or so), if I pushed the primer bulb in, I could keep it running for another 3-5 seconds (so I could keep it running as long as I wanted, as long as I could keep pushing the bulb in about every 3 seconds and had the throttle all the way down). After reading around on here, I thought it might be the muffler side of things, so I took it apart and got the muffler off. It didn't appear clogged at all, but I gave the screen a good brushing anyway and put it back together. When I tried starting it, it ran for about 60 seconds, as long as I kept it on full choke. Whenever I started moving the choke lever down towards half, it would start to die, and I would move it back up to full. Even with the throttle all the way down, this would happen. Well, it was working, even though I had to leave the choke on full, so I picked it up to start trimming some grass, and it died within about 10 seconds. I realized that with the fuel filter off, the intake line was way up near the top of the tank and when I picked it up, the fuel probably went below it and caused it to stop. So, I used some needle-nose pliers and pulled the intake fuel line through the hole in the tank such that the opening for the line was down near the bottom of the tank. However, now it's back to what it was before -- it starts and runs for 5 seconds and then dies. An interesting tidbit is that pushing the primer bulb no longer will keep it running now for some reason. Anyway, I'm at the end of ideas as to what I could do to get this thing working again. I'd appreciate any help! Thanks in advance, Greg

The pictures show my Craftsman 16", 26cc weedeater, just curious who made this? It was sold by Sear's and has Craftsman's name on it. Manual? I have no problems finding little parts for these things, here are some good sources: ****** My question is just that it's manual says that it is a leaf-blower. I believe that the motor can be used in either a blower or a weedeater. But I'm just curious - is there perhaps a manual out there somewhere where this is diagrammed as a weedeater? I can live without an answer to this question although if I ever have to really rebuild the thing - I might like one! So far I have only put in a new fuel line - I got the part from Randy's on ebay and this went well - but it's an easy job if you have the right tools. So I just want to be prepared for the future and get some history on this thing - any help appreciated, thank you. :) Here are some pics ... it's on .080/.085" cutter-line type and the fuel line ID for the little one from the gas filter is .080" ID.