teacherman
Pinnacle OPE Member
- Local time
- 3:19 AM
- User ID
- 3607
- Joined
- Jul 19, 2017
- Messages
- 844
- Reaction score
- 2,958
- Location
- NW Virginia
To the mods: I posted this in the Stihl section without reading the "Read this first" part, and I tried to delete it but couldn't figure out how to do it. Please forgive me, I won't do that again.
Howdy folks. Living it up here in Virginia. Starting to climb trees again.
I am looking at swapping in a slant fin cylinder on my MS440. I've been looking at both the Mahle and the Kolbenschmidt (KS), and the KS ones look like they will move a lot more mixture through the ports than the Mahle ones. Has anyone compared the Mahle slant fins with the later decomp cylinders? This is a late 440 with not much use. It is a nice strong saw, and I'm thinking of spending a bit for a 10 mm Mahle cylinder to make it more so. Has anyone looked at the insides of the two side by side, or better yet, taken pictures of them? If it's not much change, I probably won't bother. I found an early KS jug for my late 064, which might make it rival a 500i.... and I could be happy with that instead.
Howdy folks. Living it up here in Virginia. Starting to climb trees again.
I am looking at swapping in a slant fin cylinder on my MS440. I've been looking at both the Mahle and the Kolbenschmidt (KS), and the KS ones look like they will move a lot more mixture through the ports than the Mahle ones. Has anyone compared the Mahle slant fins with the later decomp cylinders? This is a late 440 with not much use. It is a nice strong saw, and I'm thinking of spending a bit for a 10 mm Mahle cylinder to make it more so. Has anyone looked at the insides of the two side by side, or better yet, taken pictures of them? If it's not much change, I probably won't bother. I found an early KS jug for my late 064, which might make it rival a 500i.... and I could be happy with that instead.
Last edited: