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66Fleetside said:
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This request might be kind of a pain in the butt, so no big deal if you don’t want to. You seem to have first hand (or at least 2nd hand) knowledge of this whole saga. Would you be willing to write up a summary of the facts/events starting from when IH originally got the saw?

I think I’ve pieced it together pretty well. But I suspect there are others lurking (perhaps even IH subscribers) who might benefit from a “one-stop” telling of the story. And some of them might be objective enough to have their minds changed......
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Tomorrow morning when I’m at the computer I will give you the whole story. I bought the saw from Randy back in 2015. Jesse bought it about 6 months ago.
 
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Tomorrow morning when I’m at the computer I will give you the whole story. I bought the saw from Randy back in 2015. Jesse bought it about 6 months ago.
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Thanks. A couple things I’m not clear on: What was the reason given to Jessie for replacing the cylinder in the first place? Did IH tell the customer that he was putting an AM cylinder on it?
 
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Thanks. A couple things I’m not clear on: What was the reason given to Jessie for replacing the cylinder in the first place? Did IH tell the customer that he was putting an AM cylinder on it?
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Jesse sent the saw to IH because he thought the saw was tired and needed freshening. He told IH that he thought the coil was bad also. IH told him it would be around $400 but wouldn't know till he got in the saw. He pulled the top off on his YT show and I really didn't think it looked that bad and IH stated the same thing. Later he told Jesse the cylinder was out of round and it would be $600 for the build. Jesse never had a saw built before and just thought it was business as usual. He got the saw back and it ran terrible. I ran the saw also so this is first hand information. Terrible compression and still the electrical issue. Not really sure why a saw builder wouldn't take care of the problem. Even a good porting job isn't gonna run right with electrical issues. Jesse called IH and gave him the opportunity to make it right. IH response to the low compression was, well your not running a McCullough and you knew it had a bad coil. Jesse got the saw to me to take apart. I put a compression tester on it 135. I was getting ready to take the top off to inspect but thought I better get someone that is well respected in the forum and you tube field lol. I will not out him because it's not my place to do that. We took the top off and the porting was not of good quality at all. I have experience with very good porting jobs I owned 2 of Randy's jobs and a Mike Lee 385 top. The piston was scored and for me the exhaust was raised too much. The Hyway top was a base gasket delete and still had .41 squish. Jesse only cut down 3 trees and I cut 4 blocks. Even a dumb logger like me knew it wasn't what it should have been.
I had a good used top so I honed it we put new rings and I put my muffler on it. Also base gasket delete. She had 170psi. The next morning I found that the switch was bad so I had a used one, put it on and Jesse is able to work. IMHO $600 is too much money for the minimal sloppy porting and AM top is just not acceptable at that price. There are other things I did not like about the build but that's just things I have a problem with but that might just be me. We tried to look for the blame somewhere else and wanted to give IH the benefit of the doubt. Never met the guy and wasn't out to hurt anyone. This was all brought on by him as far as I'm concerned.
 
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