Recent content by Crsracing

I'm definitely saving those numbers! Due to the growing list of things that are arguably more important then hoping up my saw i think I will have to be happy with just pulling the gasket, cleaning up the castings, smoothing out the ports/portmatching, and removing the taper on the exhaust port...

I guess my plan was to put the top of the port back exactly where it was before it dropped with the cylinder. Just took measurements these are as measured straight across not on a curve not including the chamfer Skirt width 1.350" Exhaust port 1.1" Intake port 1.150" Already noticed the...

Checked the squish it was just over .040 pulled the gasket and rechecked its .030 now. I've previously read about people doing this but what no one has really seemed to mention, is it advisable to raise the ports the same amount they where "lowered" or is it so little as not to worry about it ?

I appreciate the quick responses! The "tonsil" <-great name for it lol is actually in the intake port like mastermind said. I assumed it was for ring support, but had never seen that before. And yes that must be the thread I was reading he started talking about piston in backwards and something...

Recently come to the conclusion I needed a new saw. I work for a rental management company so its mostly storm clean up some pruning and occasionally taking a tree down. I wanted a good all around saw something not to heavy for small stuff but powerful enough for anything I would encounter...