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With as violent as it sounded, I wouldn't be surprised. Didnt they have flywheel side bearing problems.
Early on the 385 did but that was a relatively short window in the production run. They got substandard bearings from a supplier (much like the fiasco
Stihl had for a while with the 046 on the PTO side). They were able to nip it in the bud quickly. The big issue I heard about with the 390 early on was
mounting ears on the cylinders breaking off. They got that one taken care of as well with the updated cylinder.