Hi Tyler,
do you mean that Weed Eater was also badge engineered as the McCulloch you have?
My friend's one got a loose head recently I believe, and he said the gasket had been put on at the factory with part of it folded over!
Good to see somebody at last acknowledge how great the Ryan engines of the old Ryobis are. If nothing else, they are simple and have the torque to operate the assortment of optional attachments available at the time.
I find that the older they are, the better as proven when I took a green 1980s built one and a later one from the 1990s in for a compression test and the green one came up trumps at 120psi vs something like 70psi for the later one. I still use it now.
