spudulike

Looks like a Husqvarna L65. Some were made in Sweden, some in Yugoslavia as was. Don't leave it running near anything dry that can catch fire as the exhaust blows downwards on to your dry grass that then catches fire.....interesting design.

Glad you sorted it, these small plugs appear to be less reliable than the 14mm ones, catches me out now and then!

Is this the Mtronic saw or the manual tune model? The one Essex is talking about is the manual tune model. Was it ever working in your ownership?

135psi is very low, what compression gauge are you using? 150+ is more typical on small saws.

MS200Ts are like gold dust, even parts make good £££. Most likely your 200s have carb issues, if they are near complete then £100-150 per saw. Is the 084 the one I looked at?

Leaking seals generally have a bit of black fluid around them if they are that bad. Mostly engines will start with a dodgy seal and have had saws start with the seal completely missing! If you have tried the carb and ruled it out - I say this a bit tongue in cheek as I have heard it all before and carbs are probably the most likely cause, try the coil as they can spark but the spark can be timed all wrong. I have had a blower idle perfectly but as soon as you rev the engine - pop, nothing and it was the coil high speed advance blown so it would just die. If the thing has compression then it sounds coil/plug orientated but that is if your carb swap was as it should be. Don't rule out split fuel lines and dodgy fuel filter as well plus the muffler can sometimes wet plugged with carbon etc, worth checking.

Done a bit on eBay and purchased all sorts, they are indeed skewed towards protecting the buyer and having tried to purchase hair clippers recently, nothing arrived fecking Chinese and got reimbursed so glad for their purchase protection. I am old school, you sell something and it should be as you described. The issue is when you sell a saw and it is flagged as faulty and comes back with half its parts missing. Not something I have had but it has happened or you sell something and the purchaser says it never arrived etc. I have been lucky so far but prefer to have purchasers turn up so you can show it working and drive in two strokes need oil in the petrol etc. eBay is a double edged sword, good on some occasions and a pain if it ever goes wrong. Best you can do Rob is to use it as free marketing....£30 on eBay, £20 from online shop, that sort of thing and don't expect to sell anything on the Bay but use it as a redirection to your site!

I have had a few after market Chinese carbs come through fitted to MS200Ts and all have been absolute crap. They are near impossible to adjust and hyper sensitive in adjustment. I have given up on all of them and fitted a refurb OEM carb on all of them. Some are OK but these MS200 ones are pants! Zama are in fact Chinese but manufactured to a specification.

Bummer, I know a number of customers that won't like that!

Yes and the aluminium drive shaft.

Stihl HT131....bloody weird internals but they are a pretty useful tool. Each time I get them in I give them a thorough testing trimming all the stuff in the garden! They are a telescopic pole saw but some....I know I know, use them with trimming heads - it can cause issues but does open up a wealth of tall soft wood trimming on tall hedges.

And that is the point, I fix them for a years use + and I don't want or need the extra work. Imagine you spent a day doing a superb reduction and then a week later you saw a couple of ijuts cutting the tree down, apart from you being paid for your work, it would be pretty demoralising and that is how I feel sometimes when I get saws singing, nice and clean etc then a few weeks later...trashed. Generally it isn't like that and is more people asking for their saws to be ported and then they add that the saw hasn't run since it was seized two years ago....REALLY! Sometimes it is like a black comedy with saws being more suited to a skip than a rebuild and port. I guess I know the effects of a blocked air filter - not naming the guy in France that sent me a saw that wouldn't rev when hot that all I did was clean the air filter! Not sure what is worse, not doing any maintenance or someone doing it and not knowing what they are doing...seen some horror stories in my time! I recently started asking when the saw was last serviced....now that is relatively amusing!!

If it idles but dies when you open the throttle then it will be fuel starvation. Change the fuel filter and while you are in there, check the state of the fuel line - if it looks OK and isn't hard or cracked, try that but I think it is mpre than likely that your carb gauze strainer has fine wood chip in it or a fine scum dried on it. Pull the carb off, take off the alloy cover held on by one large screw, prize the strainer out (sharp craft knife), look through it with a magnifying glass and if blocked, carb cleaner and compressor to clean it. Reinsert, reassemble and retune carb. See how that goes!

Probably a bit of fine woodchip plugged on the pickup side, just blast compressed air or carb cleaner/WD40 on the exit side and it should clear - may have to rotate the gear shaft to get the flat inline with the outlet and inlet holes. Winkling it out with a pin may help breaking it up if it isn't an angled union. Other than that, withdraw the drive gear and blast it through. That is how most stop working if it isn't pinion related.

Kenneth Williams, fast, clever and cutting......always funny - not quite so camp myself but like the humour!

Yup, I think a few need to learn manners and give thanks for any help offered and then feedback if the info helped or not. Recently all the old members on here are discussing an issue well after the OP has pissed off in to the distance!

Go on, name and shame....that will teach them I am not sure what people get taught but some can't even adjust an idle let alone tell if a sprocket is worn or not. Bet most don't even know what those lines on the Oregon Powermatch Rims actually are!

Is it me or is the site rife with first posters asking for help and then disappearing in to the distance...perhaps they start the job and then got Covid 19 or perhaps as Elton DIDNT say...Thanks seems to be the hardest word! It is beginning to grate a bit - not how I was brought up!

TBH, I don't know but I do know the clutch drum is completely different. The 020T and mS200T are completely interchangeable but the 020AV is nothing like them and suspect none of the parts will fit - I don't have one now, flogged it for £60 to a kid that loved it!

All you need to do is say where you are in the country and someone may see it, see it is for sale, make you an offer and....well....you may SELL it £70.....bargain!

I usually find sarcasm is quite effective. I said to one customer that the issue with his saw was the lack of a compressor, He totally missed the joke and said which part of the saw was a "compressor".......made me chuckle! On the other hand - one customer sent three saws in, I gave him the usual....you can grow spuds on those saws, he sent me a pic of his new compressor and every machine thereafter was nice and clean...Mr Harrison, you are a gent

Dynamite and ear muffs

3 parts, lump of rubber with a metal plate either end, one with a female threaded hole, the other with a male threaded stud on it.

Flat out for short periods, don't leave it idling for long periods, keep the heat down so no long flat out runs. Theory - piston and bore are rough to begin with, this will cause more heat to be generated whilst running in hence short periods of flat out. These rough surfaces allow the piston and ring to form the same shape of the bore but you have limited time as the rough surfaces will smooth out relatively quickly so you use it flat out for short periods allowing for the parts to bed in quickly. This will give the saw more compression and therefore, more torque/power.

Some on older machines I have had in have sort of melted or the outside has got sticky looking. They haven't melted completely, more of a bit of reaction between the rubber and the oil. Don't try the Chinese ones, they are utter shyte!