Husqvarna Gas Leaf Blower, 28-cc 1.1-HP

Falls not even here yet and I have already put it through its paces very well made compared to the echo brand I bought that only lasted a year

Starts easy does great job
pleased with it fast delivery

Easy to start, plenty of power to blow large pile of leaf’s.

That is a very good blower the Husqvarna it works well I’m glad I bought it thank you David

I purchased this as a homeowner of a small 1/5 acre lot. I only used twice a month. When my fuel lines started leaking at 6 months, I called the Husqvarna help line and they sent me to a local dealer.
The dealer said he would fix it, but not under warranty. He said Husqvarna would not honor warranty for fuel lines, they would blame owner for storing the tool with ethanol based fuel in the tank.

Here is a news flash for Husqvarna…..I store all of my gas powered tools with fuel in the tank and my ECHO brand weedeater that is now 2 years old has never had an issue. I fuel them from the same gas can. My Craftsman gas tools have never had a problem, and they are 3 yrs old. Husqvarna obviously has a quality control problem here with these cheap fuel lines.

My lines broke off at the same point that other reviewers mentioned. When I examined closely, there is a black rubber gasket that the 2 fuel lines go through to enter the fuel tank. This gasket squeezes the lines with pressure and you have the close contact of different rubbers and plastics touching each other. I believe that the reason the fuel lines failed, has to either be because they could not handle the pressure exerted on them by the rubber gasket or it is a chemical failure of where the two different materials of the gasket and the fuel line contact each other. I will try to post a picture, but the fuel line broke off almost even with the gasket and was misshaped, it had a smaller diameter where the gasket had been squeezing it. Similar to when you stretch a piece of plastic tubing and the part that stretches, gets smaller in diameter.

Additionally, the fuel line that lays in the bottom of the fuel tank and is the most exposed to ethanol and its corrosive properties, was just fine. It was not damaged and when I pulled on it, it did not break or fray or crack. All of the damage was centered on where the gasket put pressure on the lines themselves.

UPDATE: I managed to repair the fuel lines myself. It was fairly easy. It took me about 1.5 hours because I am not very good with mechanical stuff. A real mechanic could probably do it in 15 minutes.
When I went to ACE Hardware, they sold 2 types of fuel lines. ONE was a yellow tinted, ethanol resistant fuel line for $1.40 per foot. The other was a clear, plain fuel line that was only .39 cents per foot. Guess which one most closely resembled the fuel line I was replacing from Husqvarna. You guessed it, the .39 cents per foot.

I purchased the more expensive fuel lines and started to work. I will try to post pictures on Amazon. It is pretty simple, you remove the big black plastic nut that holds on the air filter cover, then remove the air filter. Now you will see 2 nuts that need to be removed. Then you will have access to all of the 3 fuel lines. The fuel lines are 2 different sizes, my local Ace sold them both. I just went in and purchased 2 feet of each size hose and that was plenty. I did not write down the diameter sizes, what I did was take in a piece of my broken fuel line I snipped off with some scissors. That way I could compare them. Then you just slowly pull off each old line and replace it with each new line. Pretty straight forward. No way to mess up, as long as you dont remove all of the lines at once and forget where they go. hahaha

I feel like I have much better quality fuel lines now, they are formulated to be chemical resistant. So even if the gasket causes a chemical failure of the line, maybe these will be resistant to that.

NON ETHANOL GASOLINE
As an additional helpful point, I found a website… you can Google ……pure-gas.org ……..to find a station near you without ethanol. I don’t disagree that ethanol is bad for gas tools. Ethanol is bad for fuel lines, etc. But I do not believe that ethanol is to blame for such a quick and total failure of this tool.

I love my Husqvarna string trimmer which is why I went with this brand blower after fighting with an extension cord for far too long. It’s great! Much blowier than my old electric (Toro). It is a bit on the heavy side. Blows leaves so much better! I will say for my smaller oak leaves (the approx 2 inch leaves that are somewhat diamond shaped) this blower still struggles getting those out of the St Augustine grass. With larger leaves though, this blower rocks! I also have some old rain gutter cleanout tubes, 3d printed an adapter for this, and my gutters are cleaner than they’ve been in a while! It WAS cumbersome trying to lug this around with one arm and control the tubes one handed. I threw a strap around this blower and it seemed to do the trick.

**UPDATE: So about a year after owning, it began to run weird. Out of the blue one week. Wouldn’t top out at full throttle, stuttered and died at idle. Did a bit of research and found with a cheap little carb adjustment tool, all it needed were a couple quick adjustments and now it runs like new again. Also found that sometimes the screws that hold the carb to the intake body can occasionally get loose causing bad fuel/air mixture and similar rough running symptoms. Both are pretty easy to fix with a screw driver and/or carb adjust tool. So, does it require some DIY TLC? Yes. Is is maintenance free forever? No. Would I still recommend it? Yes.

This is the best products yet of Husqwarna I have used, light weight and very easy to use.

Highly Reccomend it 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

Alan H