Husqvarna 395 Chain Tensioner Issue

[beaglebriar]

I have a few of these saws, never had an issue with the tensioner other than losing the little rubber retainer. 28" is the longest bar I run though. Could be a long bar thing or ham fists?? Hard to say.

 

[beaglebriar]

As rogue mentions, get him & his saw in front of you and watch him tension his 36"B/C. That should answer the best part of your question. If you get a warm 36" .404 chain/bar tension it on the tight side then let the saw cool...you'll have issues, maybe not today but it will eventually bite ya ass. He's lucky he's only breaking tensioners....there fairly cheap. Break 1, it could be bad luck....2 well you think about what your doing & how your doing it and maybe put it down to very bad luck. 3 tensioners if you haven't realised your the problem & are blaming the 0EM part & guy that installed it....well your probably a friggin idiot.

This made me chuckle. Troof!! [emoji23]

 

[PogoInTheWoods]

never had an issue with the tensioner other than losing the little rubber retainer

Use a little piece of fuel line to replace that retainer.

 

[Mattyo]

I disagree. ...use an e clip .... it stays permanent instead of rubber which disintegrates.

 

[PogoInTheWoods]

Oh. Ok. Guess I'd better stop with that dumb ass sh!t, huh? Silly me. LOL

(Nice to see everyone's favorite contrarian back in the saddle again and goin' strong.)

I 'spose if ya have a bunch of the right sized 'e' clips they'll work too till they wear thin and pop off. But if ya don't have a handy little stash of em, use a small length of fuel hose. It works just fine and will probably last as long or longer than an 'e' clip anyway. One approach that certainly doesn't work very long is the little piece o' crap (either rubber or circuit board type material) Husky uses.

I've applied this method (as do others) to lots of saws using such a retaining setup with zero problems and will continue to do so. I automatically convert any Husky that uses the thin wafer or rubber retainer because those will fail.

This happens to be a 50 series example below. Same principle on any of em that have a deep enough pocket to accommodate the piece of hose. Not sure how it would disintegrate aside from a dumb ass using the wrong chain and cranking the tensioner all the way out tryin' to tighten it and mashing the retainer. Sure wouldn't be the ethanol that would otherwise eat the same piece o' hose a whole lot faster if it were submerged in a fuel tank full of ethanol based mix.

Regardless of whatever floats your particular boat, Matt, I must certainly take issue with such a blanket proclamation that the suggestion I offered won't work. It does work and has proven to be a lasting solution on the saws I've applied it to.

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[Mattyo]

I just respectfully disagree. ..that's all. I've had the same trouble with the oem husky piece of whatever that is....and I came to a different conclusion. That's all.

An e clip assortment is cheap and super handy to keep around. No harm done using a piece of fuel line...or even an o ring from an o ring assortment. Lots of different ways. I just propose that an e clip will probably be the least likely to be an issue in the future.

Carry on gents.

 

[Carhartt]

Parts ordered.
Heres a tip off, he mentioned to me " I didn't do anything it broke while I was cutting". He is also notorious with running way to tight of chains in my opinion. If his chain is to tight warm, then when it cools it stresses the tensioner. Which means the bar nuts are not holding the bar clamp tension. And I will never doubt his bar nuts not being tight. Now you are asking a slippy smooth surface to hold back some pretty good reverse tension.

 

[XP_Slinger]

Parts ordered.
Heres a tip off, he mentioned to me " I didn't do anything it broke while I was cutting". He is also notorious with running way to tight of chains in my opinion. If his chain is to tight warm, then when it cools it stresses the tensioner. Which means the bar nuts are not holding the bar clamp tension. And I will never doubt his bar nuts not being tight. Now you are asking a slippy smooth surface to hold back some pretty good reverse tension.

Wow, if an over tightened chain is causing this he must setting it at banjo string tension. He must have to dress his bar after every tank of gas. Lol

 

[PogoInTheWoods]

Could be a little rough on the clutch and bearings, too!