STIHL The Official Stihl Chainsaws Thread

[brandonstclair20]

What should the base carburetor settings be on a MS460 with a dual port muffler. It ran good but I think I flooded it the second time I tried to run it. It put out a lot of blue smoke the first time I ran it.

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[lehman live edge slab]

All stock except you added dual port muffler? 1 to 1-1/4 out on both is where I'd start.

 

[brandonstclair20]

All stock except you added dual port muffler? 1 to 1-1/4 out on both is where I'd start.

Yeah, all stock except the dual port. I’ll start there, thanks.


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[lehman live edge slab]

Make sure after your get it started to warm it up before trying to tune it.

 

[Hoggwood]

Picked up a couple decommissioned saws from the scrap metal yard. City works was cleaning out an old tool shed and they had dropped off a few dusty ones. I took a stab at this one. It appears to be earlier than my others. Clean bill of health thus far. Timing was good on my part. 5 min. later and they were in the crusher. Fortuitous.

 

[lehman live edge slab]

Nice 031 almost looks like an older top with the new style rewind with newer stihl label

 

[Dub11]

Ok, I got my rubber sealing strips and have a vacuum pump with gauge and an OEM Echo pressure test pump with gauge. Now, is it possible to pressure test the saw by sealing the area between the air filter and carb? Or, should I take off the carb and seal off the intake boot? Also, how would I seal off the impulse line? Finally, what vacuum and pressure specs should I be looking for on my 024?

I'd seal between carb and boot so you can test the boot and a golf tee can block off the impulse. I got these slick little plastic clamp things from Dave that work great. And on the pressure and vacuum your looking more for how long it holds vs how much. No more than 10 psi is what I have found from reading.

 

[FergusonTO35]

Thanks bro!

 

[FergusonTO35]

Picked up a couple decommissioned saws from the scrap metal yard. City works was cleaning out an old tool shed and they had dropped off a few dusty ones. I took a stab at this one. It appears to be earlier than my others. Clean bill of health thus far. Timing was good on my part. 5 min. later and they were in the crusher. Fortuitous.

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You are a saint, and shame on whoever decided to pitch that saw. It was purchased with your tax dollars and anybody can see that it wasn't junk and had potential value.

Maybe we should start an ASPCA style fundraiser for rescuing old saws. Have commercials showing OPE members rescuing saws from scrapyards and dumpsters while a tearful narrator extols you to give. "Time is running out for these helpless and abandoned saws. Won't you pick up the phone right now and say, 'I won't standby and let old saws suffer any longer!' "

 

[lehman live edge slab]

People give me grief for searching the dump piles for saws but I don't care. Person would be surprised to find out how many aren't dead. That one probably ran when they put on shelf just got replaced by new saw and new people working that could care less about the old junk on the shelf. Just clean the tool shed is all they're looking at.

 

[rocketnorton]

my first 288 came from a dump. took it home & had runnin w/in an hr.

 

[lehman live edge slab]

Big saws are kinda rare up here. Most people have 50-60cc saws for firewood. Finding 080-100 cc saws is kinda unusual. Lots of mid range stihls and husky but run across old large saws that older people have stored away once in awhile.

 

[brandonstclair20]

Make sure after your get it started to warm it up before trying to tune it.

I switched the aftermarket carburetor with a rebuilt oem carburetor. I should have known better than to try a cheap carburetor.


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[RI Chevy]

I switched the aftermarket carburetor with a rebuilt oem carburetor. I should have known better than to try a cheap carburetor.


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What carb did you try and where did you get it from?

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[lehman live edge slab]

I've heard mixed reviews on aftermarket carbs. The ones definitive Dave sells or at least a lot of the ones he sells are true Zama's so probably good carbs. I there are people that complain about zamas some but I've had good luck with them. Stihl owns zama and stihl,husky and a whole bunch of others use them.

 

[brandonstclair20]

What carb did you try and where did you get it from?

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I don’t remember exactly where but was from some independent seller on eBay, I think it was hi lo carburetor. I had good luck with the first one from that seller. The lever on the needle have been set wrong, I didn’t look, I just swapped cleaned an oem carburetor. The saw wouldn’t idle with the Chinese carburetor, it kept going dead.


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[RI Chevy]

Hmmm. Weird.

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[Al Smith]

I've got a 700 McCulloch a guy found at a transfer station and gave me with a broken recoil ,it runs like a top .

 

[lehman live edge slab]

Picked up a couple decommissioned saws from the scrap metal yard. City works was cleaning out an old tool shed and they had dropped off a few dusty ones. I took a stab at this one. It appears to be earlier than my others. Clean bill of health thus far. Timing was good on my part. 5 min. later and they were in the crusher. Fortuitous.

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Looks almost like mine but I have the older red top and old stihl symbol. Don't know if they made the cast # tops at the same time as the metal tags or not. Maybe whatever they happened to grab for a top as they were building them?

 

[brandonstclair20]

Anyone use a 6202 bearing from a industrial supplier? It seems to be sticking out into the case a little bit on a MS440.


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