Ketchup
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Probably my biggest fail yet is my 361 Hybrid. Hung a ring at about an hour of run time. It’s going to take a new P&C and roughly 10 hrs of grinding to get it back to life.
I recently ported a 261 that ran great for about a day then the throttle vein in the carb came loose. It spit the screw all the way through the saw and into the muffler. Piston was wrecked but jug was okay. Pulse line tore while re-building. Finally got it back to life, but it wouldn’t oil. I pull the PTO side apart to find the clutch bearing has disintegrated, two broken clutch springs and a busted worm gear. It’s back to ripping but I kind of watch it with a side eye now.
My 394 converted to 395 also ingested a choke vein screw. Wasn’t lucky on that one. Piston and chamber are hammered to hell, screw imbedded in the piston. I shouldn’t have trusted that carb. I think it’s what killed the initial 394 p&c as well.
And then there’s the nightmare “port work” people sometimes bring me. Ports ground from the outside without disassembly, angle grinder base cuts, welded scrench art projects for mufflers, window screen air filters, all the good stuff.
When I ported my first 201t, I took it up a big Poplar removal. I started with a big topping cut. I fired the saw up, ran great. I disengaged the chain break and went to start my face cut and the clutch cover, bar and chain fell off the saw and to ground with the chain still spinning.
The very first saw I rebuilt was a 346xp. Knowing zero, I bought a $40 chinese cylinder kit and installed it. Well one of the circlips went missing during the build. I stole one from the dead piston and buttoned it up. I was excited and started it. It sputtered to life and idled so I blipped the throttle. The strange clang noise and instant stop indicated where that circlip had gone.
Mistakes make you humble I guess.
I recently ported a 261 that ran great for about a day then the throttle vein in the carb came loose. It spit the screw all the way through the saw and into the muffler. Piston was wrecked but jug was okay. Pulse line tore while re-building. Finally got it back to life, but it wouldn’t oil. I pull the PTO side apart to find the clutch bearing has disintegrated, two broken clutch springs and a busted worm gear. It’s back to ripping but I kind of watch it with a side eye now.
My 394 converted to 395 also ingested a choke vein screw. Wasn’t lucky on that one. Piston and chamber are hammered to hell, screw imbedded in the piston. I shouldn’t have trusted that carb. I think it’s what killed the initial 394 p&c as well.
And then there’s the nightmare “port work” people sometimes bring me. Ports ground from the outside without disassembly, angle grinder base cuts, welded scrench art projects for mufflers, window screen air filters, all the good stuff.
When I ported my first 201t, I took it up a big Poplar removal. I started with a big topping cut. I fired the saw up, ran great. I disengaged the chain break and went to start my face cut and the clutch cover, bar and chain fell off the saw and to ground with the chain still spinning.
The very first saw I rebuilt was a 346xp. Knowing zero, I bought a $40 chinese cylinder kit and installed it. Well one of the circlips went missing during the build. I stole one from the dead piston and buttoned it up. I was excited and started it. It sputtered to life and idled so I blipped the throttle. The strange clang noise and instant stop indicated where that circlip had gone.
Mistakes make you humble I guess.
