He’s actually a YT er I can watch ,I was soooo pumped (not really) to see the world’s first 400.1 in the US.
Brother Rich let me down.
They dumped the Mag piston. Supposedly, some caught on fire and discontinued the MS-362 (dropped 400.1 displacement)
I took the cheese on that mice elfI was soooo pumped (
Brother Rich let me down.
Did you notice how literally every cut had a little piss rev before doing the cut. Perhaps on this model you just pull the trigger and it automatically does a pass rev without having to blip the throttle LOL.
Randy is looking forward to it as well.
The story goes that someone used a spark plug that was too hot, but I really found it tough to believe myself. I'm sure we will never get a straight answer from Stihl on....well, anything.
I had to google it. Mag foil will ignite at 883* Fahrenheit. If an engine is an air pump, and air cools metal, IDK how hot a mass of Magnesium would have to get to ignite? Seems fishy to me too.
I would almost guarantee it is bs, reason I say this if this was the actual case Stihl would most certainly have to do a safety recall and stick aluminum pistons in every 400 out there or buy them back/trade for the new one. This would be a major safety issue to have a saw light on fire and not be able to be put out. And they have no control over what you put in for a spark plug not that I believe even the hottest plug in that series could make it happen.
Most new Stihls that we test run after mods take about 15 pulls to fire up. Doing 6 or 8 in a row can be tough....
Seems like some of the old poulan and mac videos I’ve seen the operator was happy it fired by the 15-20th pull and was running on 25 but I realize that’s an old saw and since husky puts a primer on everything now if a saw doesn’t start in 2-3 pulls it’s hard starting.
I would not be unhappy to see Stihl use primer bulbs...
It's pretty nice not running the 562 for months, tossing it in the bed of the truck in the rain/snow/whatever to bounce around heading to the woods, then having it pop on the first or second pull. I mean, I'll strike a round of hickory 27 times with a maul to get it to open up so I don't need to have this feature, but it's nice.
