Woodlarc
OPE Member
Hi all,
Inherited an older non running MS 261 and find the carb has no id marks whatsoever. Not even Zama. No dealer so get the official Stihl parts list and perplexed when see 3 different carbs listed with 2 different ways of identifying them. The first is strictly #'s and I'm guessing is a Stihl part # and second, starting with "C1Q" is a Zama identifier. Correct me if I'm wrong
Anyway, none of these relate to anything for sale on Ebay or Amazon so am asking for help on how to pursue this.
* Most fundamentally, could anyone or everyone tell me what identifying marks you have on yours?
And for those more involved:
* Will same carb work in all years? If is same carb that means they just keep changing #'s for no good reason with each superseding the last and then they stopped listing the succession deep in the past. Is this true?
* Or if the succession of identifiers is listed somewhere, where? Tried hard and failed
* Mostly Ebay sellers or others offer a C1Q-S246 or sometimes a C1Q-S252. Are these the same and will they work? Apparently you're just supposed to take seller's word that they work on Ms261, 271, 291. How do they know that and I can't?
And what is current stihl # and what were previous #'s that would work. Third one on ancient parts list is 1141-120-0604. Gone, into the black.
Anyway, my first venture into the murky world of parts aquisition and I'm not impressed. Please chip in with whatever you know in or around this subject.
Inherited an older non running MS 261 and find the carb has no id marks whatsoever. Not even Zama. No dealer so get the official Stihl parts list and perplexed when see 3 different carbs listed with 2 different ways of identifying them. The first is strictly #'s and I'm guessing is a Stihl part # and second, starting with "C1Q" is a Zama identifier. Correct me if I'm wrong
Anyway, none of these relate to anything for sale on Ebay or Amazon so am asking for help on how to pursue this.
* Most fundamentally, could anyone or everyone tell me what identifying marks you have on yours?
And for those more involved:
* Will same carb work in all years? If is same carb that means they just keep changing #'s for no good reason with each superseding the last and then they stopped listing the succession deep in the past. Is this true?
* Or if the succession of identifiers is listed somewhere, where? Tried hard and failed
* Mostly Ebay sellers or others offer a C1Q-S246 or sometimes a C1Q-S252. Are these the same and will they work? Apparently you're just supposed to take seller's word that they work on Ms261, 271, 291. How do they know that and I can't?
And what is current stihl # and what were previous #'s that would work. Third one on ancient parts list is 1141-120-0604. Gone, into the black.
Anyway, my first venture into the murky world of parts aquisition and I'm not impressed. Please chip in with whatever you know in or around this subject.
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