MS200T Oiling Problem

[Arbocop]

a bit of a non enviro frendly answer hear.

 

ensure all oil holes clean etc in bar and saw, empty all old oil out, red deaisle or parrafin 1/4 fill tank rise round a good few times

 

the nmake some very runny oild by watering down with derv/parr and see if that pumps if not reach for the tools

 

kev

[Al Smith]

Running some kerosine or diesel fuel through often cleans them out . Automatic transmission oil does good too .The detergents in the oil disolves the gummy residue left by old bar oil .

 

You think they get gummy while sitting part of a year .Try one that has been sitting for twenty years some time if you want a challange . I've traveled that road a time or two .

[Dean Lofthouse]

i second that, know of a bloke who started one up with no side cover on outside the clutch span off, seperated as it hit the floor bounced shattered a fellow workers car window:ohmy:

 

Like Mesterh says, that will only happen if you have stripped the saw, put it back together, then start it. If the saw has been in use then the side cover is removed it will not spin off.

 

The spinoff is caused by inertia, that inertia is no where near enough to be able to undo a fully tightened clutch.

[Gnarlyoak]

Just a quick update, first of all thanks to all the replies and advice given. Tried to empty the oil tank and flush it out with a derv thinned mix to no avail. In the end I had to strip it down and traced it to a blocked nipple, where the oil pipe feeds into chassis outlet. Bit of a poke with a bent paper clip and a squirt of WD40 (that little plastic straw on the side of the can was a perfect fit..... how did they know!?1?). Job done, now she's oiling up a treat. Brum brum.

 

Whilst searching the T'internet also came across handy Stihl manual with useful blown up cross sections of the inner workings of the MS200. I also came across the same manual on an American site being sold in the same PDF format sent to you by email for $14.95. So if your thinking of stripping down your MS200 in the near future you can get your free copy (or download it and sell it to some Yank with more money than sense) from the following site:

 

http://bricomeca.free.fr/Stihl/stihl%20MS200T%20IPL.pdf

[Al Smith]

Well the Stihl corperation will take a dim view of pirating copy written material for a profit . As for yanks having more money than sense,most of us already have the IPLs . Have you heard the term "yankee ingenuity "