Screaming 361.

[Al Smith]

Well you probabley would have luck with a greased bearing if it were sealed which it's not .Or it it were serviced frequently but most are not .

 

While most of the clutch side of a Stihl saw has all kinds of shrouding you must remove in order to say service the oil pump or replace a seal it's just amazing the amount of fine dust that manages to migrate into to every nook and cranny .

 

Now on that idealaly the owners of the saws should periodically clean the things out which they don't do on this side of the big pond .Maybe so in GB ,don't really know myself .

 

Back to this screaming saw .It might be a thing where it's packed full on dust ,stranger things have happened .I've even seen them ran with the brakes set and it warps the shrouding ,noisey then .

 

The most odd I ever saw was one ran without a bearing or E clip. The clutch guard kept the rim from comming out but it cooked all the shrouding .How it kept from at least not ruining the crankshaft bearing I'll never know but it did break two out of three clutch shoes .