Any Chinese chainsaw and chinese parts discussion

[Czed]

How do I determine if mine has that issue?

Mine was fine they must've started replacing the undersized pistons.

 

[Sawdust Man]

Mine was fine they must've started replacing the undersized pistons.

Good to hear, I'll check it out hopefully it's good.

 

[Maintenance Chief]

I got the blue one, maybe thats the cut off?

 

[Czed]

I got the blue one, maybe thats the cut off?

No clue
But one of my 288s has farmertec stamped inside the clutch cover the other one doesn't.

 

[Sawdust Man]

Pulled the mufflers off the 288 & 395.... everything looks good, so hopefully they run for a while anyway.

The recoil spring in the 288 required some bending to get it to engage the pulley, but it looks like it's going to work now.

 

[Czed]

I heat cycled a couple of time's and tuned the g288 lite in wood today
and cut some
It runs like any stock 288
The decomp is leaking badly so I'm tossing it.

 

[Loony661]

Something happened to my G372 XP the other day. I was using is and it started making a metal rattling noise real loud. I shut it off and then it was “locked up”. I think it in the recoil. I can’t pull the recoil, but the piston is not locked up that I can tell so far. I’ll pull the recoil housing off in a few days and take a look.

 

[Czed]

I got my g372xp in and noticed how completely different it felt in hand
The g372xt has a much larger more comfortable half wrap
Instead of the puny little one on the xp.

 

[ammoaddict]

Something happened to my G372 XP the other day. I was using is and it started making a metal rattling noise real loud. I shut it off and then it was “locked up”. I think it in the recoil. I can’t pull the recoil, but the piston is not locked up that I can tell so far. I’ll pull the recoil housing off in a few days and take a look.

If it still has the Chinese rope on it, that's probably the culprit. Same thing happened to the one I built.

 

[Spike60]

The OEM XT's also had a larger diameter top handle. Always felt better to me. Works well on the originals also.

 

[Loony661]

So I dug into my locked up G372XP tonight, and this is what I found:
The wing nut and washer were inside the recoil housing, and had gotten jammed between the flywheel and coil… Now I’m totally new to the husqvarna platform of saws, so if anyone know where these may have came from, please enlighten me. I could not see anything obviously missing, and think that it’s strange that a wing nut would be used on a saw to begin with.. I removed them, put the recoil back on, and fired the saw up - it runs great!

It should be noted that there’s no way that the wing nut could fit through the vents on the recoil housing, so it must have been in there somewhere from the start Same with the washer possibly?? I had been bucking some logs with it when it began “rattling” loudly and when I shut it off it was jammed up.. So wherever these pieces were to begin with, they didn’t stay there.

 

[Sawdust Man]

So I dug into my locked up G372XP tonight, and this is what I found:View attachment 408657
The wing nut and washer were inside the recoil housing, and had gotten jammed between the flywheel and coil… Now I’m totally new to the husqvarna platform of saws, so if anyone know where these may have came from, please enlighten me. I could not see anything obviously missing, and think that it’s strange that a wing nut would be used on a saw to begin with.. I removed them, put the recoil back on, and fired the saw up - it runs great!

It should be noted that there’s no way that the wing nut could fit through the vents on the recoil housing, so it must have been in there somewhere from the start Same with the washer possibly?? I had been bucking some logs with it when it began “rattling” loudly and when I shut it off it was jammed up.. So wherever these pieces were to begin with, they didn’t stay there.

Looks like the air filter hardware to me.

 

[Czed]

So I dug into my locked up G372XP tonight, and this is what I found:View attachment 408657
The wing nut and washer were inside the recoil housing, and had gotten jammed between the flywheel and coil… Now I’m totally new to the husqvarna platform of saws, so if anyone know where these may have came from, please enlighten me. I could not see anything obviously missing, and think that it’s strange that a wing nut would be used on a saw to begin with.. I removed them, put the recoil back on, and fired the saw up - it runs great!

It should be noted that there’s no way that the wing nut could fit through the vents on the recoil housing, so it must have been in there somewhere from the start Same with the washer possibly?? I had been bucking some logs with it when it began “rattling” loudly and when I shut it off it was jammed up.. So wherever these pieces were to begin with, they didn’t stay there.

Air filter hardware

 

[Czed]

So I dug into my locked up G372XP tonight, and this is what I found:View attachment 408657
The wing nut and washer were inside the recoil housing, and had gotten jammed between the flywheel and coil… Now I’m totally new to the husqvarna platform of saws, so if anyone know where these may have came from, please enlighten me. I could not see anything obviously missing, and think that it’s strange that a wing nut would be used on a saw to begin with.. I removed them, put the recoil back on, and fired the saw up - it runs great!

It should be noted that there’s no way that the wing nut could fit through the vents on the recoil housing, so it must have been in there somewhere from the start Same with the washer possibly?? I had been bucking some logs with it when it began “rattling” loudly and when I shut it off it was jammed up.. So wherever these pieces were to begin with, they didn’t stay there.

When they're tight they never come loose
At least I've never had one come loose.

 

[Spike60]

Did the flywheel or coil suffer any damage?

 

[Hulpio]

Amazon c3-el42 was actually el32.
It is a bit tricky to measure venturi size but for sure it was not 17mm.

 

[Loony661]

Looks like the air filter hardware to me.

Air filter hardware View attachment 408670

Yep, that’s what it was. Thank you fellas. I had looked right past the air filter in my original haste to pull the spark plug and check the cylinder… I’ll tighten it down good, maybe even use a lock washer underneath. Thanks again. Saw runs great.

 

[Loony661]

Did the flywheel or coil suffer any damage?

Did not appear to be any damage.

 

[Sawdust Man]

Washed a bunch of saws today.
I'm planning to take 3 or 4 of those clones to an auction next week, just too much unused stuff sitting around here.

 

[Hulpio]

I like those Duke's plated pistons they are only 21.00 i used 11 different one's last summer
Nice inexpensive Pistons.

I just can not edit my order in Duke's webshop. Maybe I'm even more blind than I hope but just cant.
Webshop itself - well, it is different. Normally you log in, edit qtys or even delete the whole thing. Nope, not there.
Seems to me that my test order has eternal life then.