What's on your bench?

[WillG]

Got my 58 Evinrude Fastwin 18 fired up after sitting since September of 2020. Percolated some fresh 24:1 through the fuel system and it fired up 3rd pull. Didn't even have to tweak the carb although I will double check the tune on the water Saturday.

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[av8or3]

Stihl 031AV acquired in a trade from a good friend. Was his first saw, hard to believe he didn’t want to keep it. I replaced impulse line and fuel line. Reinstalled the points & condenser that had been replaced with a chip or something. Rubbed on it a bunch with Flitz to bring the paint back. And cleaned it from inside out. Runs great and will occupy a spot in my older Stihl collection.

 

[Likesaws]

Got my 58 Evinrude Fastwin 18 fired up after sitting since September of 2020. Percolated some fresh 24:1 through the fuel system and it fired up 3rd pull. Didn't even have to tweak the carb although I will double check the tune on the water Saturday.

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Very nice like the pics.

 

[Maintenance Chief]

Annnnnnd the party's already over. Reason # 845,654,455,565 why aftermarket parts are such a toilet. This happens to be a little red barn piston. First one I ever bought. Now the last too. Guess I'll just run the top ring as see what happens
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Out of all the aftermarket pistons I've seen the ones from LRB are the worst. Casting looks awful and if its for the McCulloch the tolerances are garbage.

 

[Agent Smith]

Out of all the aftermarket pistons I've seen the ones from LRB are the worst. Casting looks awful and if its for the McCulloch the tolerances are garbage.

It's junk alright. I wish meteor made this new version piston I needed. Took a chance on what was available. Got kicked in the sack lol

 

[WillG]

Plastic carb Briggs for a fuel system cleaning. Brass plug in the jet assembly came out when I was trying to pop it out of the carb body. I'll have a new jet assembly tomorrow.

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[heimannm]

I ran out of room on the bench(s)...I needed to send out a part so I decided I would move all the large frame stuff over and get it sorted out. A few surprises, if anyone needs an NOS clutch cover (black) for one of the left hand start McCulloch saws I may have what you need.



Mark

 

[Maintenance Chief]

It's junk alright. I wish meteor made this new version piston I needed. Took a chance on what was available. Got kicked in the sack lol

The popularity of swapping these over to the 039 motor is probably to avoid stuff like that.

 

[Agent Smith]

The popularity of swapping these over to the 039 motor is probably to avoid stuff like that.

I think you're thinking of the 029/290 saws. These 291's are not capable of that swap

 

[huskihl]

 

[huskihl]

It's junk alright. I wish meteor made this new version piston I needed. Took a chance on what was available. Got kicked in the sack lol

At least nobody on here accused you of over-porting that intake roof LOL

 

[Agent Smith]

At least nobody on here accused you of over-porting that intake roof LOL

Wasn't that just retarded? Didnt even do one lick of port work to that thing. The stuff people pull outta their asses in those groups

 

[huskihl]

Wasn't that just retarded? Didnt even do one lick of port work to that thing. The stuff people pull outta their asses in those groups

But but but… But there’s 30,000 of them. That’s where it’s at, doncha know?

 

[Kiwioilboiler]

A 372. Came to me after seller had paid someone to ruin it. Original cylinder probably just needed a tidy but instead an AM big bore kit was installed, very poorly.
I put together the cylinder that was originally on my MMWS saw with a piston and ring out of my 2171 after I Meteor'd it. What a bitzer...
Good runner now and has got my average cost on this chassis down a bit...

 

[RI Chevy]

Looks like piston was installed facing wrong way...

 

[Kiwioilboiler]

Looks like piston was installed facing wrong way...

Sure was.

 

[RI Chevy]

That's why a little bit of knowledge is dangerous!!! Lol

 

[John235]

Yep. I made that mistake once when I was 16 years old I put the piston in backwards on my 250r three wheeler. Won’t do that again. It ran for about 10 minutes. Luckily it was an older steel cylinder and could be bored bigger.

 

[Kiwioilboiler]

Yep. I made that mistake once when I was 16 years old I put the piston in backwards on my 250r three wheeler. Won’t do that again. It ran for about 10 minutes. Luckily it was an older steel cylinder and could be bored bigger.

The backass piston put the ring join dead smack in the middle of the exh port. The snag in the port is easily smoothed out so once some rings come in the big bore kit is complete again. Just didn't want to use it on a '372'. Some crusty old 365 or 2065 no Speciale would be a better host to my way of thinking.

 

[Maintenance Chief]

Thays a shame they paid someone to do that.