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Im working on an 066 for a friend and I told him I could have it running in under 2 hours....
I WAS WRONG
It had a fuel tank that the two halves had seperated, he tried to repair them but the gas ate whatever he used so they were pretty bad off. I wasn't really in the mood to plasti weld them so I replaced the fuel tank with one of the FT 660 tanks.
There were a few wires messed up on the original tank so that kinda helped in my decision to replace it. When i did the tank, I replaced 3 of the av buffers, the stihl ones were either dry rotted or worn slap out.
I took the jug off and cleaned off some exhaust residue, replaced the exhaust and cylinder gasket. Bearings and oil seals looked pretty good. The OEM stihl cylinder and piston looked extremely good for the age of the saw and the fact that 3 of the buffers were trashed.
Replaced the coil with a FT 660 coil, replaced the walbro carb with an old FT I had laying around, replaced plug with a FT.
on top of the mechanical stuff, I replaced chain tensioner and chain break junk with FT, I would have left it all stihl but a few parts were missing..
So I started cranking on the saw, It popped one time. Not like a normal start where it fires once on choke and then runs off choke. All it did was pop. Nothing more. Didnt get a sputter, spit, spat, nothin.
I know it is definitly getting fire and fuel.. It was flooded when I took the plug out. I drained it and tried it with the old carb, I doubted the FT because it was kinda old and slightly used. Instantly flooded
My main question is about the coil and flywheel. I havn't checked the flywheel nut yet, i know thats a pretty good reason for it just straight flooding itself.
But does the original OEM flywheel work differently with a FT coil than it does the OEM coil??
Do I need to switch it over to a FT flywheel?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I WAS WRONG
It had a fuel tank that the two halves had seperated, he tried to repair them but the gas ate whatever he used so they were pretty bad off. I wasn't really in the mood to plasti weld them so I replaced the fuel tank with one of the FT 660 tanks.
There were a few wires messed up on the original tank so that kinda helped in my decision to replace it. When i did the tank, I replaced 3 of the av buffers, the stihl ones were either dry rotted or worn slap out.
I took the jug off and cleaned off some exhaust residue, replaced the exhaust and cylinder gasket. Bearings and oil seals looked pretty good. The OEM stihl cylinder and piston looked extremely good for the age of the saw and the fact that 3 of the buffers were trashed.
Replaced the coil with a FT 660 coil, replaced the walbro carb with an old FT I had laying around, replaced plug with a FT.
on top of the mechanical stuff, I replaced chain tensioner and chain break junk with FT, I would have left it all stihl but a few parts were missing..
So I started cranking on the saw, It popped one time. Not like a normal start where it fires once on choke and then runs off choke. All it did was pop. Nothing more. Didnt get a sputter, spit, spat, nothin.
I know it is definitly getting fire and fuel.. It was flooded when I took the plug out. I drained it and tried it with the old carb, I doubted the FT because it was kinda old and slightly used. Instantly flooded
My main question is about the coil and flywheel. I havn't checked the flywheel nut yet, i know thats a pretty good reason for it just straight flooding itself.
But does the original OEM flywheel work differently with a FT coil than it does the OEM coil??
Do I need to switch it over to a FT flywheel?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.