Husky 345 spewing oil

[Botty Cough]

Well a fairly light use 345 is chucking out chain oil .

Is there a pipe or something that comes off. This saw has done at best 25hrs work.

It leaks oil out when sat on the bench. I don't really use it much as it's a back up but would like to stop it's incontinence..

[Muddy42]

Sorry if this is basic, but have you ran it without the bar and chain on to see where the oil spews out? If its coming out of the hole that lines up with the bar that's what its meant to do. Unless the saw has an adjustable oiler (I don't think it does) there is not much you can do.

 

When you say spewing, can you be a bit more specific?  All saws will leak bar oil to some extent if oil is left in the tank, 50ml or so. You could try draining the tank, leaving the saw in a different orientation or a more viscous oil.

 

Personally I buy chain oil in bulk, put adjustable oilers at max and don't worry about it.  Resting saws on cardboard to soak oil up works quite well.  The opposite of too little oil is way worse!

 

 

[Botty Cough]

Oil leaks out from behind the bar when sat on the bench.

When it's not running and left so I'm wondering if the oil tank feed pipe has become detected in some way.

Guess I'll find out when I take it apart 

[adw]

9 hours ago, Muddy42 said:

Sorry if this is basic, but have you ran it without the bar and chain on to see where the oil spews out? If its coming out of the hole that lines up with the bar that's what its meant to do. Unless the saw has an adjustable oiler (I don't think it does) there is not much you can do.

 

When you say spewing, can you be a bit more specific?  All saws will leak bar oil to some extent if oil is left in the tank, 50ml or so. You could try draining the tank, leaving the saw in a different orientation or a more viscous oil.

 

Personally I buy chain oil in bulk, put adjustable oilers at max and don't worry about it.  Resting saws on cardboard to soak oil up works quite well.  The opposite of too little oil is way worse!

 

 

Please please, do NOT run the saw without the bar and chain fitted, the clutch can, and will come off on the over run, once off, the the spider, shoes and spring will fly apart at speed and can cause serious injury if it hits somebody.

[Muddy42]

2 hours ago, adw said:

Please please, do NOT run the saw without the bar and chain fitted, the clutch can, and will come off on the over run, once off, the the spider, shoes and spring will fly apart at speed and can cause serious injury if it hits somebody.

I have done this often to test oiling and never had a problem (granted for short periods and only a little throttle beyond idle). And not if the clutch had just been taken off.

[Botty Cough]

10 hours ago, adw said:

Please please, do NOT run the saw without the bar and chain fitted, the clutch can, and will come off on the over run, once off, the the spider, shoes and spring will fly apart at speed and can cause serious injury if it hits somebody.

Rubbish 

[Stubby]

11 minutes ago, Botty Cough said:

Rubbish 

Its happened to me in the past . Clutch shot across the floor at a rate of knots . So not rubbish . 

[skc101fc]

Me too. Not rubbish 

[Botty Cough]

No reason for a clutch to fly off without the bar attached unless it's not fitted correctly 

[Stubby]

3 minutes ago, Botty Cough said:

No reason for a clutch to fly off without the bar attached unless it's not fitted correctly 

Its on the over run that the " undoing " forces are created .