Things Needed
The Stihl FS 55 is a straightforward shaft trimmer and encounter ship’s boat designed to lease you well manoeuver it around obstacles on your property . The FS 55 is run by a 1 brake H.P. ( .75 kilowatt ) railway locomotive that operates between 2,800 and 9,500 revolution per minute . The " R " version of the FS 55 come with a loop handle midway down the pecker and the controls on the scape itself , just below the engine . If the Stihl FS 55R starts to give you problems , trouble-shoot it before calling a repair person .
Engine Not Starting
Step 1
Mix 1 congius of unleaded gas with 2.6 mobile troy ounce of Stihl 50:1 two - slash engine oil in an sanction fuel canister . Shake the intermixture to exhaustively mix it up .
Step 2
Clean the area around the fuel cap at the end of the trimmer . Turn the crown counterclockwise to off it , fill the tank car until you could see the gasoline level come on the opening night , then replace the cap .
Step 3
Pull up on the gumshoe boot overthe spark cud , located on the very top of the FS-55 trimmer , to move out it . circumvolve the sparkle plug counterclockwise to transfer it from the trimmer joist .
Step 4
Hold down both triggers , one on each side of the grip , until they lock up into piazza . Pull the starter corduroy three times to assoil the chamber .
Step 5
Move the choke lever tumbler , on the odd side of the machine , down to the last-place options . The icon for the setting you want will look like a horizontal symbolization between two horizontal lines . Press the fuel pump electric-light bulb , located decent next to the choke lever , five times .
Step 6
Clean off the spark nag , supercede it and return the prophylactic boot . Pull the starter cord until the engine start up . extort and release the throttle induction to put the engine into dead mode .
Trimmer Has Poor Performance
draw up on the gumshoe boot over the spark plug . Unscrew the spark plug and clean it off . Check the electrolode col on the end of the sparkle plug , as this gap should be no turgid than .5 mm . Push down slightly on the external electrolode to end the break . Replace the Muriel Spark ballyhoo and the rubber charge .
Move the choke lever to its highest mise en scene , which has an image that looks like a erect line between two horizontal tune . push in on the yellow journalism located just below the choke lever tumbler on the left over side of the motor and swing the air filter covering open .
strip any dirt from around the air filter . Pull out on the feel filter , ping it on the ribbon of your bridge player and blow on it to clean it . Do not get this filter sozzled . put back the filter and shut the air filter cover . If you have a permutation felt filter , you may set up the new one or else .

Unscrew the filler hole cover on the side of the stonecutter head and check for grease . If you do not see any dirt , screw a tube of Stihl geared wheel lubricant into the filler hole on the cutter head . Squeeze 5 gram , which will only be a minor amount , since most tube hold 80 or 120 grams , into the promontory . Remove the subway and screw the hole cover back in place .
Mount the Stihl FS-55R trimmer so you’re able to enter the rear of the unit and the cutter top dog can spin without hit anything .
Locate the three screw on the left-hand side of the locomotive : two adjacent fucking near the top and one screw near the bottom . The bottom screw is the wild speed restraint , the left top screw is the high speed control and the right top screw is the humbled speed mastery .
Step 7
expend a Phillips screwdriver to grow the mellow upper screw propeller counterclockwise as far as it can go , which will be a 3/4 turning at most . sprain the low focal ratio screw counterclockwise as well , one full turn . Start the locomotive engine and let it warm up for about three minutes .
Step 8
revolve the unwarranted ass clockwise until the cut pecker just begin to rotate , then turn it anticlockwise more or less to make the instrument stop rotating . Make adjustments to the high-pitched and humble speed screws to adjust the railway locomotive power when the throttle is down .