Problem Starting Eskimo Stingray auger
I have the 33 cc Stingray auger. It is new this year and used a few times but I am new to gas augers and having some trouble starting it. I have used a few times before and it will start but can be very finicky and I have started carrying my manual auger as a back up. I was out yesterday in -20 and it started on the 3rd or 4th pull so I drilled my first hole, then I laid it on it's side because I wanted to quickly check the depth before drilling more holes. It started sputtering and died so I was finally able to get it to start again and drilled 2 more holes and then died. After that I was only able to get it to turn over by priming it 1 or 2 times, but then it would chug for a bit and die, I would try to give it some gas which would help a bit but as soon as I took off choke it would die. Then because of priming it so much some gas was starting to leak. I am sure I am flooding it but that was the only way to even get the engine to turn over. Then when I laid it down some gas started leaking. I also use the premium mixed fuel which was recommended on a previous post. I finally gave up and went and got the manual auger. Any tips?
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