Good to know
I've used 40+ am cylinder kits over the year's and dozens of pistons
meteor and farmertec mainly some white box ebay specials.
Tecomec used to be the best price vs quality
They've stopped production I'm told.
Mako made some decent kits but i haven't seen much of them lately.
Had some port edges to clean up here and there
Nothing bad
Had one 372 farmertec with no exhaust bolt holes i drilled and tapped it.
Put them in a variety of saws over the year's.
These new hyway 372oe bb popup kits
Are great runner's i was suprised.
170s comp out of the box
Good fit and finish.
I have a xt that needs rebuilt
i could try one of yours
If you want to send one
Thanks
Mako lost distributorship in the US when Tilton went out and don't really have any distributor in the states now. They do some OEM branding for some guys out there and you can still order Mako stuff but since there's no distributor you're mainly purchasing large qty order directly from China.
All aftermarket stuff can generally be a crapshoot, even with the best factories. I had a guy email me this week that his MS290 I sent to him hadn't been tapped on the cylinder pan bolt holes. Ouch, that's a little embarrassing. Had to check my remaining stock. Frankly these are parts that retail for up to 1/10th the price or less of OEM and I believe it's pretty rational to expect a less than OEM experience with some of the stuff sometimes. I think it all depends on who you buy from and what the merchant is willing to do to back up the stuff they sell. If we have problems with stuff we dump it, ain't worth selling total junk. We work with some good companies though....
I've had some Farmertec cylinders on the shelf here in the past I'm not totally crazy about all of them. I think they source from a number of different places because you can see differences from one batch to the next. That's just a guess from me though. It's decent, serviceable and priced inexpensively. I've had some pretty bad looking jugs come in....
"I checked with technicist he said ok to run"
Yeah, that ain't gonna work for me.
Nowadays there's some REALLY nice stuff coming out of China as well. Stuff I would put up against basically any Taiwan cylinder. They really have improved a lot over the past few years. Ignition coils and carbs are great too, if you get them from the right places. A lot of the OEMs are over there and they're making to OEM ones and the aftermarkets the same way. Carbs too.
The Hyway jugs really are a cut above most of the stuff on the market and the workmanship is pretty damned great. Really a great value.
I've got some more 372XT kits coming in this month. I'll look you up whenever the time comes.
