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trooney said:

Was out cutting with my Rattlered 346 and all of a sudden she cut off. Couldnt get her started. All kinds of things were going through my mind..coil, ground wire, even thought about the piston(though I checked the plug last week and it was burning fine). Took it to the garage, it had spark, so I messed around with it and got it to fire up but it ran like *s-word. First thing that went through my mind is I sheared a flywheel key. Started to take her apart when the thought came to me it could be the spark plug too, getting spark but erratic spark. Thought I ought to check that first.
Put it all together and changed spark plugs. Now NGK has been my plug of choice ever since I got into a bad batch of Boschs'. However, I had some BOschs' laying around that somebody gave me and I put it in the saw. She fired up nice and pretty and throttled up just fine. Now I've cut my share of wood and this is the first time this has happened to me. Probably not the last. Its funny how when something goes wrong with a saw I'm always looking for something wrong with the internals of the saw, not something like a spark plug. I posted this because to the newbie, a saw can be quite challenging when you are trying to figure out what is going on with the saw. It might be something simple however, so start with the basics and then get deeper into the saw. Its all a learning experience.

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trooney said:

Was out cutting with my Rattlered 346 and all of a sudden she cut off. Couldnt get her started. All kinds of things were going through my mind..coil, ground wire, even thought about the piston(though I checked the plug last week and it was burning fine). Took it to the garage, it had spark, so I messed around with it and got it to fire up but it ran like *s-word. First thing that went through my mind is I sheared a flywheel key. Started to take her apart when the thought came to me it could be the spark plug too, getting spark but erratic spark. Thought I ought to check that first.
Put it all together and changed spark plugs. Now NGK has been my plug of choice ever since I got into a bad batch of Boschs'. However, I had some BOschs' laying around that somebody gave me and I put it in the saw. She fired up nice and pretty and throttled up just fine. Now I've cut my share of wood and this is the first time this has happened to me. Probably not the last. Its funny how when something goes wrong with a saw I'm always looking for something wrong with the internals of the saw, not something like a spark plug. I posted this because to the newbie, a saw can be quite challenging when you are trying to figure out what is going on with the saw. It might be something simple however, so start with the basics and then get deeper into the saw. Its all a learning experience.

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Stump Shot said:

Sad that you can't trust this once great brand any longer. Globalization and profits won out over quality.

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trooney said:

Was out cutting with my Rattlered 346 and all of a sudden she cut off. Couldnt get her started. All kinds of things were going through my mind..coil, ground wire, even thought about the piston(though I checked the plug last week and it was burning fine). Took it to the garage, it had spark, so I messed around with it and got it to fire up but it ran like *s-word. First thing that went through my mind is I sheared a flywheel key. Started to take her apart when the thought came to me it could be the spark plug too, getting spark but erratic spark. Thought I ought to check that first.
Put it all together and changed spark plugs. Now NGK has been my plug of choice ever since I got into a bad batch of Boschs'. However, I had some BOschs' laying around that somebody gave me and I put it in the saw. She fired up nice and pretty and throttled up just fine. Now I've cut my share of wood and this is the first time this has happened to me. Probably not the last. Its funny how when something goes wrong with a saw I'm always looking for something wrong with the internals of the saw, not something like a spark plug. I posted this because to the newbie, a saw can be quite challenging when you are trying to figure out what is going on with the saw. It might be something simple however, so start with the basics and then get deeper into the saw. Its all a learning experience.

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Wolverine said:

A certain Hack has me hooked on Denso. So far so good. Glad it was just a plug.

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huskihl said:

Champion seems to fail about 5 times more often. But people forget that there are probably 5 times more Champions out there. I bet failure rates between brands are quite similar

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trooney said:

Was out cutting with my Rattlered 346 and all of a sudden she cut off. Couldnt get her started. All kinds of things were going through my mind..coil, ground wire, even thought about the piston(though I checked the plug last week and it was burning fine). Took it to the garage, it had spark, so I messed around with it and got it to fire up but it ran like *s-word. First thing that went through my mind is I sheared a flywheel key. Started to take her apart when the thought came to me it could be the spark plug too, getting spark but erratic spark. Thought I ought to check that first.
Put it all together and changed spark plugs. Now NGK has been my plug of choice ever since I got into a bad batch of Boschs'. However, I had some BOschs' laying around that somebody gave me and I put it in the saw. She fired up nice and pretty and throttled up just fine. Now I've cut my share of wood and this is the first time this has happened to me. Probably not the last. Its funny how when something goes wrong with a saw I'm always looking for something wrong with the internals of the saw, not something like a spark plug. I posted this because to the newbie, a saw can be quite challenging when you are trying to figure out what is going on with the saw. It might be something simple however, so start with the basics and then get deeper into the saw. Its all a learning experience.

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Chainganger said:

What is the Denso number?

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