Typical symptoms of 345/346 etc intake failure?

[SawTroll]

Dont mess about with non standard clips, learn how to fit the correct clip, its not that hard once you have done a few, but as has been said its more importent to get the impulse into the cylinder before fitting the housing.

Not everyone has a chance to "do a few".

 

I have 3 of those saws (353G, NE346xpg and 2153WH), but never had to "do" any of them.

Edited August 9, 2015 by SawTroll

[spudulike]

Like I have said before, the action you need on the nearly fitted clip is compression of the two locking tabs together and the one with the tongue needs to go slightly inwards and the one with the loop slightly outwards.

 

OK, so how do you achieve this - Plumbers grips:thumbup: don't just use them and squeeze........... angle them so when you do squeeze, they give the action you need as mentioned above. From memory, if the tab with the tongue on it is at the bottom, you need to have the grips jaws so the lower jaw pushes the tab inwards as well as upwards.

 

It is easy to do but difficult to describe, once you have it, it is an easy operation and agree with ADW on this one.

 

I doooo hope you are fittinng the thing BEFORE fitting the cylinder:blushing: If you are doing it in situe then God help you:001_rolleyes:

 

I always remove the plastics from the rubber boot, check for splitting around the impulse nipple, allign the boot 100% so the nipple is located in to the cylinder perfectly and then put the clamp assembly on and then the clamp.

 

This life is all about thinking about what you need and then adapting what you have or making tools to make it easier. I would say most guys may struggle with the first time they hit this operation but once "the knack" is achieved, it is damn easy:thumbup: