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Maybe the oiler drive wire was pushing the drum out against the washer?

I’ve learned the hard way that saws aren’t meant to be run without the bar and chain, which helps the engine decelerate more smoothly and prevents the clutch from spinning itself off.

Yep, when string or weeds are wrapped up behind the washer, that’s when they won’t come off.

I’d guess that the “wet noodle” had a fuel leak onto it that caused that. The old 028’s would leak fuel from the vent up onto the anti-vibe bushing and turn it into a spongy mess. Has this saw had a known fuel leak?

It is. Go to coastal California and it’s different there. Echo started marketing the first backpack leaf blower there over 50 years ago. It was a slightly modified gas powered duster, which is what the Japanese farmers used in their fields after we knocked their industry flat in WW2.

I’ve mixed and matched crankcases on Husqvarna and Echo, but never a Stihl of that era.

Wouldn’t that result in wildly varying squish/timing numbers if the cylinder deck is different on each crankcase? Or am I misunderstanding your post?

My dad bought a 5036 in ‘07 and my grandpa a 6048 about the same time. Daddy used to run a display location for a big dealer that was about 60 miles north and wanted a display location in the southern tip of IL.

I guess that’s what the boil-off valve is for! What model boiler do you have?

You’re saying it wouldn’t fit inside the hex?

12-14 in near Mt Vernon, IL. Farther south in IL the precipitation ended up being mostly sleet.

The picture is dark enough I couldn’t figure out what was wrong. The contact spring design is something that Stihl surely is dedicated to, despite it being super stupid.

I think I’m safe in saying that loggers will never voluntarily carry a saw powered by electrolysis batteries. Maybe super capacitors, but no electrolysis based batteries have proven to be energy-dense enough to be viable for an application like logging, where weight, size, and cost are paramount...

Maybe more important than weight is how many shoulder replacements?

You can afford to sand the shaft of the drum a little to make reassembling it easier.