spudulike
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Everything posted by spudulike
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Yup, any air leak will lean the saw down and will let it over rev. A loose cylinder will cause a big air leak, it may damage the base gasket, scuff the cylinder and in bad cases, fracture the cylinder lugs that clamp it to the crankcases. A loose muffler will allow the saw to over rev and also heat up the cylinder nicely with leaking exhaust gases so a seize is immanent.
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The Mrs of course unless I haven't sorted the MS200T
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Rush who.....is that where I Exit Stage Left and enter the unrest in the forest, Plus ca change Plus c'est la mem chose, I guess living in the limelight approaches the unreal.....etc! Now where's my Little Mix album!
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.......and take over your life, even my wife knows about the foibles of the MS200t!!
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How do you think we who fix the things daily feel Experience and skill help to dial in to the issues straight away and that is where the art is - bull's-eye all the time!
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Pop the flywheel of and look at the key, if it is gone and is moulded in to the flywheel, you have a challenge to guess its position and lock it in place. It can be done but is in no way easy. A weak spark wont be caused by a damaged keyway so it may be fine. If you bend the end of the plug away from the central electrode, you may be surprised as to how strong it actually is. Check the key and go from there, it may just be a carb issue or seized piston.
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ADW was commenting on the 266 carb, the 171 has a different carb so a different metering arm set up. Set up the 171 level with the outer gasket surface rather than the bottom of the bowl!
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Not enough vowels......must be Welsh. Anyway, pop the muffler off, if seized, it will be scored up and not look smooth. If it is scored then you can replace the parts but you also have to understand what caused the parts to fail. This could be the owner not understanding that two strokes MUST have two stroke oil introduced to the fuel in a 50:1 ratio, fuel to oil. On a newer machine, this is probably the reason but don't rule out the carb fiddler that leans down the H screw with no idea what he is doing. Parts - DIY spare parts do Mitox parts but take it from me, replacing the parts is just one part of the repair, the rest is a full check to ensure it doesn't happen again. Anyway, WTF is a Mitox 4116 anyway?
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Perhaps a full working saw Jan 2021??? Get the Champers ready
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Well that's an easy one.....a cock that wants an ebay seller to fund his exploration in to totally stupid ideas!!!
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Not a bad idea, hope he isn't one of my customers as he could be an ex customer PDQ!
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Unbelievable, this sort of thing boils my piss. I just hope there is a day of reckoning and twats like that end up on a spike!
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I think from memory, these saws use a smaller diameter transparent fuel line like strimmer line, it is an interference fit on the hole in to the fuel tank and this is adequate to seal it up. It is also possible to nip the fuel line with the bottom of the white plastic plate that fits between the carb and cylinder so watch out for that.
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Never seen one of these with a good impulse connector, those green tubes always fail.
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What does the compression measure, you usually get 130-145psi with the lower figs being caused by the smaller plug adaptor. The cylinder gasket can fail by the front lower transfers...or under the muffler and the carbs have the usual issues so it is worth an inspection. Try the breather mod ADW mentions, worth a try.
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Yes, pretty much the same, around four big skips full, the rest to the house clearance people. It gives me a different perspective on my stuff. My old man went in to care and still says...if you go in to the kitchen, in the last cupboard on the left........ unfortunately, it won't be there any more!
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Having cleared my 92 year old fathers four bedroom house last year, it made me focus on how much shyte I have in my life and how little I need it.....apart from in the workshop!!!!!
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OK, around about what I do then, make the carb rich, follow the increase in revs until you see the limiter kick in and sends your tach all over the place......not heard it called a governor but may be your age, I usually refer to it as a limited coil or rev limiter! The way to handle furlough is to work out how much money you are saving by not going out and spending it on alcohol!!! Works for me
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By "governor" I am taking it you are talking about that brass carb rev limiter screw plug as fitted to my 181SE......the one all tuners blank off as it makes max revs around 8,500rpm and give you a saw that is boggy and useless?? I have never seen one on a 385 or 390 - only done a small number of 385s but just set them to 500rpm of max revs, same as most ported saws I do - they can take more but I like to build in a bit of headroom to my builds so they won't go pop if they see a little air leak of slightly less oil etc. Same as with coil rev limiters - take the carb H screw to just where the limiter starts kicking in.
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It damn well looks like it!!!
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April was completely dead, May has been a bit mad in the repair sector but I think when peoples employment situation kicks in and the money they have been saving whilst not going out is spent, it will change dramatically and not in a good way. It may be money saved from not going on holiday this year? Sorry to piss on the fireworks but some of the companies going tits up are massive and think it will take a while for us to get back to some sort of "normal" and spending ££££ will slow down dramatically!
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Had the first lettuce, trusses forming on the toms, cucumber flowers happening, courgettes and beans in the garden....courgettes got nipped by the frost but the growing tips were fortunately fine. Peppers are putting some growth in now.
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Looks like the clutch broke and burst the drum as the drum walls look good with little or no wear!
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Performance Power PWR33CCCSA Chainsaw - need sprocket
spudulike replied to Tony Rogers's topic in Chainsaws
Damn, most of these saws blow up before the sprocket wears out and your sprocket HAS worn out!!! -
It doesn't look right to me, I think the drum thingy should be in one piece and that clutch doofer held together with springy things....shall I get my glasses? Not seen one go like that, cracked but not fragmented like that!
