What's on your bench today?

[GardenKit]

And you can use it to stir your tea

Come on Spud, you know you want one really:biggrin:

[bobh]

I like that, elegant solution.

[mikerecike]

Giving the new husky 350 the once over this evening and all looks good, ready for the oak on saturday. Also on the bench tonight is an old husqvarna 41 chainsaw belonging to my brother in law. It was running erratically, impossible to tune and would keep stalling at idle, even when set high. Pulled it apart there, blocked the exhaust port and the mouth of the carb (kept carb in place) I applied 1 bar pressure into the plug hole and it held pressure for 15 mins without sign of a leak. However when I try to apply vacuum I cant get any at all. I even tried sucking through the pipe and can clearly feel air coming in. However I dont know how to find where its coming in. Obviously with pressure leak soapy water does the job but how do you check where the vacuum leak is?

 

The only thing im dubious about is the end float in the crank shaft. I can move the crank almost 1mm from side to side through the crankcase. No obvious play in bearings.

 

I have checked clutch side by firing up and then spraying wd40 at the seal.a leak will cause a stall if i remember correctly

[chrismechanic]

Ah ha, my little gadget worked a treat, glad I spent the 5 minutes now.

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nice one there GK. it works a treat, i got a ford transit in, but it is not on my bench haha.

 

mate dumped it on my drive at the crack of dawn and its a non starter

brushes on the starter motor are worn down to nothing, the solenoid is still alive, so it just clicks and no bzzz, also the dash clocks dont work what a surprize...

chris

[wisecobandit]

Got my grubby mitts on an 084 today which had the plastic cage bearing on the clutch drum disintergrate and in turn melted the oil pump gear. Somebody had had a go at it and manage to break the clutch unsuccessfully trying to remove it.

First was to give it a full clean due to the dirt, dust and sawdust.

Got it all apart and cleaned up for reassemble, as its one for myself and the oil pump gear is no longer available through stihl I managed to track down a new old stock one in Canada and also ordered a new complete clutch and other bits from here in the uk.

£150 lighter in the pocket for parts but im still a happy bunny..

After that I stripped the carb and rebuilt, drained and refilled the fuel and oil etc. Compression tested at 135 psi which im not alarmed by given its hasn't run for some time so bore was dry.

Anyway cut a long story carb settings where totally wrong - over 3 turns out and the sparkplug was only a grade 4 so new plug fitted. Replaced plug with correct and got her fired up so atleast I know its a sweet runner.

Probably now have to wait 3 weeks for the part to arrive from Canada now I guess.

[spudulike]

Local guy with a penchant for throwing his equipment out of trees brought his 372XP round - rear AV mount was badly cracked, supporting areas were broken and the tie bar across the top of the flywheel was also busted.

 

Took the flywheel off, cut a strip of steel to size and then bent and modeled it to fit around the area and wrap in to the flywheel surrounding casting.

 

JB weld behind it and some self tappers through it, steel to the inside of the area an more JB weld saw a pretty strong repair and saved him having to have the complete saw rebuilt. I even managed to pin and JB weld the tie bar!

 

I also helicoiled some of the holes, put an insert in to the chain brake habdle pivot and the job is a good one!

[MattyF]

Most grateful old bean... I'm looking forward to ragging the crap out of it most of next week.

Any body want to buy a 372 with one careful owner pm me!

[Wolfie]

i've almost thrown saw out of trees on several occasions but the tight-arsed side of me will never allow the fingers to release.

 

 

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[Eddy_t]

Haven't you fixed that 372 before spud? I'm guessing that specific saw is a regular on your bench?!

 

 

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[spudulike]

Haven't you fixed that 372 before spud? I'm guessing that specific saw is a regular on your bench?!

 

 

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I think last time I had it, the recoil got caught by the flywheel and ripped the guts out of it - not had it in for a year at least - I do get a fair few in though - ported a good number now!