Well, I think I ironed it out. Even simpler than fuel lines and such. Lean tune + dull chain = hot saw that don't wanna start. After checking over everything I sharpened the chain, which was in very bad shape and dialed in the tune. It was definitely lean. So off to the wood pile I go and commence to milling and noodling about 25 blocks to get it good and hot. Hot started perfect. So then I cut some more while really beating on it, prying on the dogs HARD and it hot started fine. Keep it simple stupid, but in all reality the saw needed a good once over inspection as my pop in law doesn't know much about a saw except how to use it. Gonna give him some chain sharpeneing and tuning pointers again so he hopefully doesn't have this problem again. So much for a project, wasn't worth starting a thread. Lol! But at least I can go get my 357XP back from his place.
It did revive my want for a 359 though, nice running saw.
