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Anybody have one of those fancy bernzomatic torches? I'm considering on for doing crankcases. 4000 or 8000 series?
I have 4000 with map that I will use occasionally to heat the area around the bearing pocket. Really only use it when things are very stuck. For removals only
 

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Why not for putting it back together?
I prefer not to beat the crankcase together, I’ll just take it slow - crankcase halves in the toaster oven and bearings in the freezer, then use a crankcase tool (MattyO’s) to pull the crank through.
 

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It would really depend on what was used. Some will some won't.
Never seen a locktite thread locker that won’t soften with heat, the old high strength and high/strength high temp both require heat to remove one just more than other. On saws I use high strength orange which is removable with hand tools no heat and blue medium strength.
 

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If I was only doing cases I would get a heat gun. I need a smaller torch anyway...sometimes oxy/act is overkill.
Still would buy a cheap heat gun also, my 2 temp Gemini brand one was like 20-25$ on sale and it’s much easier to control temp and make it heat evenly in my opinion. If case is split a toaster oven bought at a thrift store works well for some things also.
 

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Still would buy a cheap heat gun also, my 2 temp Gemini brand one was like 20-25$ on sale and it’s much easier to control temp and make it heat evenly in my opinion.
If I was only doing cases I would get a heat gun.

My Harbor Freight heat gun works great, no issue with it so far, worth the price and have options between oxy/acetylene, map, propane and electric!
 

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Still would buy a cheap heat gun also, my 2 temp Gemini brand one was like 20-25$ on sale and it’s much easier to control temp and make it heat evenly in my opinion. If case is split a toaster oven bought at a thrift store works well for some things also.
Likely will in the future.
 

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Put an adjustable carb on my ms180 off a 211 or whatever it is that's a size bigger and adjustable. Revving it out of a cut when the H jet is lean it'll bog at WOT, not over accelerate. Tunes out like it should. Why does it do that?
 

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Can't remember if it needed swapped or not, but the one on the right is what's on there. Never seen the left one.
 

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Put an adjustable carb on my ms180 off a 211 or whatever it is that's a size bigger and adjustable. Revving it out of a cut when the H jet is lean it'll bog at WOT, not over accelerate. Tunes out like it should. Why does it do that?
Should be the 021/23/25 ms 250 carb that you used to make a ms 170-180 adjustable
 

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Should be the 021/23/25 ms 250 carb that you used to make a ms 170-180 adjustable
Cool, a quick look shows that the MS 210 also used that carb so maybe that is where the MS 211 confusion comes in here. The 250 carb looks closer to a direct swap version (more so than the 211 carb)!
 
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