A question for 357xp/xpg owners !

[madmatt]

8 rim sprocket .325 chain 15" bar oh thats only when the ******g thing decides to run!

[Log-ologist]

Whats wrong with your saw ??

Or do you just not like it

 

runs like a bag of turd

 

intermittently lean then ok then no start . grrr:cussing:

 

I leave it at home .

 

I love my 372xp:star:

[treejumper]

My 357 runs like a dream - only problem I have ever had wth it was a split fuel line

[wills-mill]

Log and Matt--- I had the same with my 357, it was grumpy and unreliable and no amount of tuning or carb kits, filters etc sorted it. It just lived in the saw box, being useless and a waste of space.

 

I took it along to a 100% husky bloke (Ray Foster, Turners Hill, W Sussex), who told me he'd had several 357's with carb problems- the new model saws don't have any/enough adjustment (apparently common on newer 020 Stihls as well). He refitted the saw with a replacement older pattern carb and it runs beautifully now, absolutely rips along.....

[Sambo]

Log and Matt--- I had the same with my 357, it was grumpy and unreliable and no amount of tuning or carb kits, filters etc sorted it. It just lived in the saw box, being useless and a waste of space.

 

I took it along to a 100% husky bloke (Ray Foster, Turners Hill, W Sussex), who told me he'd had several 357's with carb problems- the new model saws don't have any/enough adjustment (apparently common on newer 020 Stihls as well). He refitted the saw with a replacement older pattern carb and it runs beautifully now, absolutely rips along.....

 

A nifty trick if you're having carb probs is to seach on ebay for the relavent carb for your saw and import it from america. Some legislation means that they can't have adjustable carbs in machine tools (or something like that any way!!) which means there are loads of perfectly servicable new carbs knocking about dirt cheap!! any future carb problems and i'm gonna just whack a whole new sucker in for 15 dollars! did it with my old 335XPT - works better than ever!

[swe#kipp]

You can also cut the plastic "wings" off the carb screws to get it fully adjustable !

you can use a dremel to grind them off or carpet knife and cut them

works perfect and I do that to all my saws to be sure they get the right amount of fuel !!

[bob]

i am now running with a 9 toothed sprocket to see how it afects it with 325

bring it on

[Tom D]

runs like a bag of turd

 

intermittently lean then ok then no start . grrr:cussing:

 

I leave it at home .

 

I love my 372xp:star:

 

Just had to put a new carb on mine, same problem. Runs well now but a £100 repair for a 15 mnth old saw is poor in my book, apparently the replacement carbs are better, the dealer said he's done loads of them:thumbdown:

[Husqvarna King]

325 and 15" and 18".....what a saw.....love everything about it, never let me down

[Pete Mctree]

never let me down

 

Sounds like someone is selling you orange and white saws and painting them before you get em!