The Death of a Saw (and I'm a Dick)

[Lightning Performance]

Sure why not? Brass sticks to damn near anything. It does not peel on iron scored cylinders.

 

[jmssaws]

Is a 360 cylinder that hard to get?
Expensive?

 

[Lightning Performance]

Yes and no. Als jug is nice all souped-up already, but broken. Most of the AM 36 ones are lamb ducks.

The AM used to have a good Raisman 034 036 360 jug. It had a short exhaust port but ran very good. Offset chamber and 0.018 gasket delete 180 psi. NLA

 

[RI Chevy]

I'd just junk it and get another. If you are building a saw for someone, you can't compromise. If you are building it for personal use, then you could give the fix a try.

 

[jmssaws]

Gonna make a omelet you gotta break a few eggs.

I've got a shelf full of them,thankfully only 2 were on someone else's saw and combined they cost me over a 1000$
Win some loose some.

 

[Lightning Performance]

NO! YES!
Run it like you stole it tear down and learn. We had no resources and little money in the seventies. You got creative or parked it.

 

[Lightning Performance]

Troof! Some of the best builds in hot rodding history were founded and tested with reworked "junkyard parts" and creativity. Besides there's more laughing and less crying when something lets go.
I wrecked a CR 250 jug before with the wrong rings. Took out the whole crank assembly to. That hurt the wallet.

That jug got used again on another bike. The broke dude got that one a his bro brazed it up honed it out and ran it.

 

[Lightning Performance]

I know many of you have ported hurt jugs that could use some love and GTG time.
Anything new on the market to try out?

 

[beaglebriar]

He wasn't holed up with a three-time All-American track star like I am.

How is ol' Carl Lewis doing anyway??

 

[Moparmyway]

Sure why not? Brass sticks to damn near anything. It does not peel on iron scored cylinders.

Because Muggy Weld has made a HUGE business designing their rods and flux for soldering aluminum.
I'd love to see you use a yellow brass rod and get it to adhere to aluminum. By the time you start to melt your brass rod, some aluminum alloys will already be liquid goo

 

[jmssaws]

I got the exhaust a little to wide on a 394 when I first started that almost put me out of business.
Cost me a piston and cylinder,crankshaft and both cases.
It wouldn't be a big deal now with the parts and resources I have but years ago I had none of that and it broke me and made me doubt my line of work.
Get 250$ to port a saw that could break and cost you more than you can bare is a hell of a gamble.

 

[drf256]

I'll likely use this jug on a saw for myself and sell my beloved 036. Aluminum low temp braze sounds like a nice way to fill that void Kevin.

Paying sometimes is part of this game. I made a dumb mistake and wanted to show just how easy that is to do.

Need to measure thrice and cut once.

If ya can't make fun of yourself, you got some issues.

 

[drf256]

BTW,

If anyone has 48mm 036/360 jugs for sale I'd be interested.

 

[Deets066]

BTW,

If anyone has 48mm 036/360 jugs for sale I'd be interested.

No spares here Al

 

[jmssaws]

I'll likely use this jug on a saw for myself and sell my beloved 036. Aluminum low temp braze sounds like a nice way to fill that void Kevin.

Paying sometimes is part of this game. I made a dumb mistake and wanted to show just how easy that is to do.

Need to measure thrice and cut once.

If ya can't make fun of yourself, you got some issues.

Cut the damn thing twice and it's still to short.

 

[bikemike]

So what happened gents?

Sounded lean or bad fuel. Maybe air leak

 

[EvilRoySlade]

This is what I found on my 360 piston. Every time I tried getting it in my cylinder the bottom ring kept catching. Well, check ring gap, checks out. Measure rings, measure the same. Pulled everything off to play with it. That's when I noticed the bottom ring pin was located more in the ring groove than top top pin. As the ring was compressed, the ends could not fit under the pin just enough that it was larger than bore. So even OEM has oddities.

 

[jmssaws]

Dave mentioned aftermarket cylinders with a dollar sign that looks like a ks mark. Like this farmertech 660 cylinder

 

[huskihl]

Dave mentioned aftermarket cylinders with a dollar sign that looks like a ks mark. Like this farmertech 660 cylinder
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That's the one.

 

[drf256]

Dave mentioned aftermarket cylinders with a dollar sign that looks like a ks mark. Like this farmertech 660 cylinder
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Wow Jason. Woulda fooled me.