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MS462 V1 See if you can spot what went wrong. I spun a hone in the cylinder a little and it actually would clean up above the exhaust port once some of the damaged material is removed during porting. It may sit in a box till I have time to port it and drop the cylinder a little.

The other year I sold a running 024 for $40 :facepalm:. It was worth more than that, but it was to a long time customer and I had picked it up for almost nothing.

You mean not even eat the squirrel meat? What a pity. It’s fine tasting stuff, a lot like rabbit, but they’re difficult to dress without getting hair on the meat.

Make sure you have a good screwdriver that fits the Phillips screw heads on the gear cover well. They usually have green Loctite on and are pretty hard too get loose the first time.

And we howl over vehicle prices, but most people wouldn’t want to go back to a 90s vehicle without A/C, Bluetooth, heated seats, a sunroof, etc. Notice I said most people—this forum has an outsized share of exceptions.

The entire bottom of the bag has fallen out—so let’s stuff even more money into it. That’ll be sure to work.

I really don’t know. But my parents later had this customer cut out a crawlspace access hole in a basement wall about 3’x3’ and he charged for a whole $600 chain. He’s an honest businessman so I assume that meant it pretty well wore one out.

Cool. I recently worked on one of these and noticed that the chain needs water even when test running it, at least on a dirty/used chain. The lubrication system seemed quite effective, but I wouldn’t have guessed there was a channel running through the bar like that. The one I worked on had the...

Only have XT sorry.

Yep, I’d agree if the boot was actually cheap. I don’t consider 120 to be anywhere close to cheap for a piece of rubber.

To put it mildly, I don’t plan that far on ahead. Nothing wrong with it, but I haven’t matured that far yet, I guess.

I’m not understanding. You’re asking if the curved shaft edger can be changed to straight shaft?

Such farsightedness makes me nervous.

If the check valves in the primer base are working properly, a new primer bulb won’t make a difference. If they are leaking, then it might help. I would guess it’s also got a stiff metering diaphragm, which would be easy enough for you to change while replacing the bulb (it’s right underneath...

Could you post a picture/ad of which style you used? This 3:1 or 4:1 stuff is significantly thicker/more flexible than older 2:1 stuff.