What you said about the rubber stiffener, i wonder if that's what happened to the first 661 I had. I had every trouble imaginable. The dealer ended up sending the saw to stihl and giving me a new one. Never heard anything back about it.
Or 2......
All this silly *s-word on a chainsaw that gets beat through the woods and used like a rented mule if a logger has it. I personally only know 1logger that's still using 661s. Everyone else switched to huskys.
got two coming.
my guys are pretty good. I try not to be a dick( not easy as it is genetic with me) and understand its a "job" to them and a hobby to me. So I kindda care more...its funny when I tell them how cool it was to run the 462 and the 500i side by side, and they look at me and say "what saws ?" ..."oh we got a few buddies in Europe that send new stuff to is in the states..." and they get the puzzled dog ears look ...
got two coming.
always kept the black spares on hand and its always been the solenoid in the past.
the new "white"one was $100+ so I had to search some and Ryan @sawmikaze hooked me up with some " repair" kits numbers that my dealer never heard of or was able to find...
jeff. any carb should be taken down and cleaned periodically as saw fines will pass through almost any filter. what that period is...well that seems to be operator mandated....like just after the saw stops operating seems to be the most common time period.
roger that sir...I did swap a 'known" bad one just for chits and giggles and the problem stayed with saw. but the former issue did not stay with solenoid. ( former issue-known black solenoid was a non-start)
saw will not run for 30 sec on "start" ...hence the question of if it can be reset at dealer .
Yes.
saw will not run for 30 sec on "start" ...hence the question of if it can be reset at dealer .
But thanks Kev. I'll try to swap v3 coil to match v3 solenoid for kicks over the weekend.
