oil leaking on my saw ??

[hawthornheavyhorses]

My MS260 did this from nearly new, bothered me for years. I bought a new filler cap when I got some other spares about 6 months ago and that cured it. It was about £4 from memory. Funny thing was is really didn't look like it was coming from there, and the cap looked perfect! However I'd exhausted all the other possibilities, so it had to be that!

[Maico490]

One of my 024 saws was marking it's territory with bar oil a little too much and it turned out to be the oil tank breather. It is the round alloy "button" type thing close to the front bar stud in the picture below. Remove the oil tank cap and either give it a squirt of carb cleaner or a bit of compressed air. It has a one way valve which should let air in but not oil out.

[predator]

thanks everyone i cleaned it all up and left it in my vice all day and the oil is creeping out the filler cap and across under the saw towards the clutch drum area which thrown me to give wrong info in first place i,am so sorry it was just the way it was sat on shelf and the way the oil had run etc

[Big Bolt]

:thumbup:sorted good:thumbup1:

[Maico490]

You will have lots of new places to look next time