Maintenance (continued)
50-hour maintenance
Every 50 hours of operation; more
frequently in dusty conditions:
■■Remove and clean the cylinder cover and clean dirt and debris from the cylinder cooling fins.
Remove and replace the fuel filter element.
■■Use a hooked wire to extract the fuel filter from inside the fuel tank. Inspect the fuel filter element. If it shows signs of contamination, replace with a genu- ine Shindaiwa replacement fuel filter element.
CAUTION!
Make sure you do not pierce the fuel line with the end of the hooked wire. The line is delicate and can be dam- aged easily.
Hooked wire
Fuel filter element
Fuel filter maintenance
Gearcase lubrication | Gearcase Clamp bolt |
Before reinstalling the new filter element, inspect the condition of all the fuel system components (fuel
Gearcase lubrication
To perform this operation, first remove the gearcase from the outer tube as follows:
1.Loosen the gearcase clamp bolt.
2.Remove the index bolt from the gearcase.
CAUTION!
Outer tube
Gearcase
Remove the outer tube from the gearcase
Index bolt
Do not remove the
3.Slide the gearcase out of the tube. Using a grease gun, pump lithium- base grease (about 10 grams) into the grease fitting (B) on the gearcase until you see old grease being purged from the gearcase. Purged grease will be visible in the outer tube cavity.
| B |
| Gearcase |
Lubricate cutter assembly and gearcase | grease fitting |
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4.Clean up excess grease, then reas- semble the gearcase onto the outer tube. Make sure the index bolt fits into the hole on the outer tube.
Securely tighten both bolts.
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