All Things 288XP

[davidwyby]

Think of the 288 as a big bore 281, just like a 272, it's a big bore 268. Husqvarna has done all the big bore work for you. I believe the cylinder skirts need to have some meat left on the bone if they are to retain their cylindrical shape and stuffs.
Good news is there's still the 395...

288+395? Hmm

 

[thedude74]

It'd be a 395 XP lite. Super sexy with quad port technologies n stoof

 

[davidwyby]

This pretty clunker showed up today

 

[Woodwackr]

This pretty clunker showed up today

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ah, the pussy version with a decomp

 

[davidwyby]

It’s nice once the extra compressions are installed.

 

[Woodwackr]

It’s nice once the extra compressions are installed.

I used mine the other day at our site 3 project...finished up today... I can't imagine lugging this sucker around the forest all day, lol. It worked great falling 35" , 80' Poplars but then bucking them up while trapesing through the brush was brutal. I lasted about an hr then went to my ported 346 with 18" bar I'm too old for this *s-word...

 

[davidwyby]

Looks like it just needs a piston

 

[Squareground3691]

This pretty clunker showed up today

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Put a V stack on her , they like the air flow , the other going to the sausage factory

 

[thedude74]

ah, the pussy version with a decomp

It’s nice once the extra compressions are installed.

I usually plug decomps....The 288 is the exception. Mine had a plug ...found a good decomp valve to put back in.

 

[davidwyby]

Arm/shoulder pain and busted recoils…

 

[Woodwackr]

Looks like it just needs a piston

I usually plug decomps....The 288 is the exception. Mine had a plug ...found a good decomp valve to put back in.

I wish mine had one.

 

[Maintenance Chief]

Looks like it just needs a piston

Really? Says 25:1 on the cover.lol

 

[davidwyby]

Really? Says 25:1 on the cover.lol

 

[davidwyby]

Parently 25:1 wasn’t enough to save the old piston, and wasn’t enough to save the new one from bassackwerds either (not me)

 

[Woodwackr]

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Geeze, what does the cyl look like?

 

[davidwyby]

Geeze, what does the cyl look like?

Pretty much just two dings in the exh port felt like it had a piston stop in it.

 

[davidwyby]

This (minus the pin) was in the muffler



I think it only ran a sec. Still had WD40 in it

 

[thedude74]

This (minus the pin) was in the muffler

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I think it only ran a sec. Still had WD40 in it

Serious carnage. Gonna try and clean it up? Or is past that "it'll buff out" moment?

 

[Squareground3691]

Pretty much just two dings in the exh port felt like it had a piston stop in it.

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That’ll buff out with some 220 grit ,

 

[smokey7]

It's amazing how many idiots will put the ring pins on the exhaust side