MCCULLOCH The official McCulloch thread

[Al Smith]

With the 82's they have plenty of torque but I've found if you just hook the dog and drop the reins and let it pick out where it wants to run and keep the R's up they cut a little faster IMO.

 

[Max the Mac Man]

Howdy Mark.
This is the saw I asked you about a few weeks back.
So going by that, I'm missing the spring and also the eyelets?
Also see the little round plug that came out of the oil tank, is this a stray part?
I presume you can make the spring out of some steel sheet?
Cheers.

I have had the spring plates remanufactured. I have the eyelets also. If you need them just shoot me a message.

 

[Al Smith]

To revisit the timing of a reed valve Mac engine if I'm not mistaken the term "marvericking the points" was discovered by an early kart racer I think Duffy Livingstone .What ever or who ever found it discovered how fast those old engines could run . I don't think however it's desirable to use on a chainsaw that could have been made 50 years ago .The life expectency on one running on alkie/nitro was something like one or two hours racing before it needed either rebuilt or blew itself to kingdom come .

 

[heimannm]

McCulloch 85583 "L" shaped spline wrench

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[Al Smith]

McCulloch 85583 "L" shaped spline wrench

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Got one plus the socket ,E-bay a long time ago from a person in I think Las Vegas who must have cornered the market with NOS when McCulloch circled the drain .Evidently she didn't keep good records and said I never paid for it .Could have been an error or just a scam .I however keep good records and sent her the stub of the US Postal money order and proof it had been cashed in . BTW this was long before pay pal .
I've kept that method of payments on anything I find on the forums .You might be dealing with a scam artist you have never met a thousand miles away .Recently as a matter of fact a scammer near Pittsburgh tried to get to get me again .I had to inform him what postal fraud is and what the results could be .I got my money order back but not the saw .Fact at saw fest I met the guy who bought it and it was a piece of junk .