Recent content by ZeroJunk

If you are young and strong don't pull the tube hard to your left. Rather turn your body. We get them in from time to time with the throttle cable stretched. It is from pulling them hard left.

I have a BR600 and a BR700 that I got basically free. They came from a commercial lawn service that does apartment complexes, that type thing. No telling how many hours on them. He runs OptiMix , or something spelled similarly. They had lost compression and would not run. I took them apart...

Different saw I know, but I had a MS661 come in burnt up and the manifold was split at the clamp like it was cut with knife.

Well, as luck would have it the kit did come in Tuesday. So, Stihl still has some somewhere. It runs fine. I hope to never see it again.

We have one of the earlier MS462's at work and a new top end has been on order since early December of 2021. So, I guess my question is will Stihl ever furnish one ? Or, since it is a tree service would paying $400 or whatever for me to rebuild it be a bad investment in a questionable...