I wouldn’t do meteor either. Seems to be the same flaky plating as the Hyway jugs. If it were my money, I would do OEM or one of the Duke’s p&c kits. I suppose I ended up in the Neenah area because of Kimberly-Clark who is my employer. Not many folks have ever heard of it, and even less have been here.Stick with the Meteor kit?
Been to Neenah…sister in Oshkosh used to go to a church here
Duke’s kit is about half the cost of Meteor or Hyway and untested. Why would you compare those with oe?
I'm not comparing the Duke's with OEM. I just know that the other two options you asked about are garbage. I have a Duke's 390xp chrome plated cylinder that I machined & ported and have been running on my 2186. The port timing was slightly better than OEM right out of the box, ports looked great, and the plating didn't lift when I ported the jug. Will the chrome bore and iron rings last as long as a nikasil bore with chrome faced rings? Probably not, but if that is of concern I would be going with OEM.
well, that's an opinion, thanks. Garbage? I think a lot of people from the last 20yrs would disagree. Perhaps the Italian and Taiwanese stuff doesn't hold up well to porting, creating the flaking issues? I have read some threads over the years discussing this as a possibility. While I would agree that going OE is the best route this isn't possible in this instance, hence the inquiry. I've had lousy luck with Duke's AM parts of late so am a bit gun-shy of them at the moment. I also haven't seen much of anything for reviews of their new 'hard chrome' cylinders including zip on their site.
Yep, it is an opinion...one that I paid quite a bit of my own money to form. I have have had four failures in four cylinders. Two Hyway and two Meteor. I'll admit that one of each was plating lifting from trying to port the cylinder. The other two were short lived and were run right out of the box. The 372 big bore hyway jug didn't make it to 20 tanks before the plating peeled off above the exhaust port. The Meteor 357xp/359 cylinder failed the same way after about two tanks. I have yet to have a failure from a Farmertec or Duke's cylinder....not saying they are OEM quality, because they are not. But they seem to work well enough to make a saw run and cut wood for a budget build. I think people get mixed up thinking that because meteor makes good pistons that they must also make good cylinders. Perhaps there are other folks who have had the exact opposite experience. At the end of the day, I am trying to provide some caution and don't want to see you run into the same trouble I did.
@Duke Thieroff is your contact. Shoot him a message. I have one of the chrome 390xp cylinders. The cylinder looked really good out of the box.
The one I got had adequate bevels. The one in the picture almost looks like it doesn’t have any.
It is a 2014 and it has an EL48 carb. I should add that since the saw failed, I have replaced the purge line and the fuel line & filter. Also put a kit in the carb and upgraded the saw to the new style air filter.
I’m not sure there is anything wrong with the carb & coil…could be I suppose. It would be all be good if the AT could lean out the low circuit. I’m sure it was at max fuel based on the seals or lack thereof when it had last run. It seems like the AT already cleaned up the high circuit….just pig rich on the low side.
Glad to see it is ready for killing trees again.
