sonoransaw
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- Jan 7, 2020
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- Arizona
Going with what I have on hand cause I just want to get started….Hope to tear this down, optimize it (squish, porting, timing), or possibly ruin it, and put it together again. This was my first saw from fifteen years ago when we bought our current house and had to start heating with wood. I knew nothing and like the typical American I went down to the hardware store and bought this little cheapie, a Poulan 3516AVX. Never made any carb adjustments on it (didn’t know how to). Used cheap gas and oil. And finally burnt the clutch on it. Instead of fixing it, I threw it in the shed and got another cheap saw. I guess the average joe would have just chucked it in the trash.
So I just went and dug it out. The pack rats had built a nest around it, so it was half buried. I had left it without a spark plug in it for some reason, and when I shook it upside down, dead bugs came out. Anyway, I blew it out good with air, and started breaking it down. Looking through the exhaust port, there might be a little scoring on the piston (I’ll look closer at that when I take it out).
I measured squish (3 places) for my first time, using solder, and it’s at .024. I took off the flywheel. Next I’m looking at the four bolts on the bottom, holding in the cylinder. Do I need to take out the round plate on the shaft in the last pic (or anything else) before taking out the cylinder?
So I just went and dug it out. The pack rats had built a nest around it, so it was half buried. I had left it without a spark plug in it for some reason, and when I shook it upside down, dead bugs came out. Anyway, I blew it out good with air, and started breaking it down. Looking through the exhaust port, there might be a little scoring on the piston (I’ll look closer at that when I take it out).
I measured squish (3 places) for my first time, using solder, and it’s at .024. I took off the flywheel. Next I’m looking at the four bolts on the bottom, holding in the cylinder. Do I need to take out the round plate on the shaft in the last pic (or anything else) before taking out the cylinder?