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Oh Lord, it has started Mattys fixes:lol: Just don't lob this one out of a tree:thumbdown:

Sorry, saw you discussing an 090 Stihl and don't know much about them, Alec (Agg221) is your man on these saws. In my day you got the contact breaker at max opening, adjusted the gap using a feeler gauge and then either set the position by moving the back plate and measured the closing of the breaker with a multimeter and a static timing mark or with a strobe at a set RPM. Not sure I could have helped, this one just had some crud between the breaker points - I didn't fiddle with the timing!

That's about as bad as putting the chain on the wrong way round isn't it Rich:blushing: I would have thought the guy would have put two and two together or at least marked the things! I tend to take photos of anything that is looking a bit complex.....like the MS200T handle internals - too many parts:lol: Always easy after you have done a few of them though!

Are you calling me old Barrie:bluboomteamenforcer Bad man.....that makes two of us old boy. Grew up with points, feeler gauges and strobe timing light:thumbup:

Sounds like the agent isn't as well:001_rolleyes: There are some good ones out there but too few judging by many comments on here:thumbdown:

Rowena motors would get the carb gauze to you in 24 hrs - the carbs on a large percentage of all two stroke saws are either Zama or Walbro with a few being tillotson, Rowena stock the same carb kits that Stihl put their name on and triple the price:thumbdown:

Thats the one, very clean for its age and runs well!

The owner is a happy man and he should be for the work I have done and the small price I am charging, got to be fair though as it was one I sold him - fault showed up a few months later but should be all good now:thumbup:

There you go Alasdair, you can fix em when you put your mind to it:thumbup:

I recently had an MS200T in and spent some time on it, it was running then it wasn't, would really cut like a demon and then a bag of poop. I have cleaned everything but when I pulled the carb gauze filter out....right out and held it against a lamp, there was a fine cover of glaze filling all the holes. It cleaned up pretty easy with a blast of solvent and dry paper towel and it fixed the issue. The carb had already been in my pro US cleaner under heat and US and am guessing the crud lifted a little and fell back in to place - the carb was cleaned with the gauze filter upwards and in place:blushing: Try it - if the saws have been left standing, they may have suffered in the same way - this MS200T had been standing a long while!

How do you apply it and does it matter how fresh it is:001_rolleyes:

I did up a Stihl 032AV some time ago and it sold on Ebay, it came back in last week with no spark! The local agent said it needed a new coil, now obsolete so was scrap. The owner got in touch and asked for help - first thought was the coils are normally robust and it may be the contact breaker. On removing the flywheel, the breaker was open circuit when closed - after a clean up - now closed circuit. Gave the flywheel and breaker area a good clean up, replaced the HT lead and cap that now had a big split in it. Bingo - spark now nice and fat - saw fired second pull - all good:thumbup:

Felco:thumbup: Went through this a couple of years ago, buy something that will last years and you can get spares for...No 2s if you are wondering!

I feel like a marmite sandwich after all this "IMO":thumbup:

Guess there are two types of people, those who think..."I wonder if I ......what would happen" and those that think..."Good, it is running, that will do..." Many find the lighter ported, faster saw saves time, fatigue on the body and enjoy the faster performance, others are happy to use the saw as it was manufactured. The manufacturers are held back by primarily the EPA and noise laws so saws have to push out clean exhaust and no more than circa 114dba, this makes the final design somewhat limited and stifled. In the old bike days, reeds were Stan Stephens or Boyesen, expansions were Allspeeds or Micron, the same thing happening, mods to motorbikes and much faster performance was born by many a boy racer:thumbup: Personally I got bored with returning saws back to working as they came out of the box and wondered what a 346XP would go like if I ..........the rest is history, 20 years in a production environment working big machines makes a difference, every cycle of a machine takes time, make the process faster and the machine makes more money and uses less labout time, less shift work etc....all the same at the end of the day!

My advice - seek medication or some sort of psychiatric help, you obviously have lost the plot, do you find yourself drawn to mobillity shops, parker knowl recliners? Do Stannah stair lifts offer opportunities and benefits, are you now watching Songs of Praise and yearning for Last of the Summer Wine? I pity your wife, I wear the socks and sandals in the confines of our house to wind the wife up but never outside:lol:

Lucky it didn't take out the rod, at least it is repairable!

I always put a bit of paper cloth down between the crank lobes and spin it round to clear any debris and puddled fuel/oil from the bottom of the crankcase before re-assembly - not a nice result but glad it wasn't a customers!

One mans junk is another mans gold, believe me, I know.....sold some old stuff destined for the dump on ebay before now:thumbup: Sure Mr Elfin has a use for th eold English metal:thumbup:

He does bake a damn good cake, his Christmas cake was stonking, the last fruit cake could have done with less baking but was still pretty good....Martin, if you are reading, time to get a lump of cake down to me:thumbup: I did land him up with a load of milling he wasn't too sure about recently though:blushing:

Cheers Bob, yup, same problem, picked up a saw with a bent crank and the top end gone through the plating, got a decent top end and was hoping to find an OEM crank but good to know the aftermarket ones are OK. Was going to strip it but was talked in to fixing it by my mate Burrell:001_rolleyes: ........sorry, ex mate

Yeah, clipons, rear sets, small fairing......and some engine work!

Anyone got a 066/MS660/MS650 crank in working order out there? It must be the 10mm flywheel end type though! Got a saw that needs a bit of TLC and will recompense in greenbacks or servicing in return:thumbup:

And theres me thinking you had purchased a Cossack Motorcycle Combination for you and the better half:lol: Is tha an MZ I se before me? I remember those in the old days - smelly old two strokes with exhausts like the one of a stove:001_tt2: Get a cheap expansion and slap it on, a bit of porting, if it has reeds then get those sorted and it should go a bit better - good luck with the Eastern Bloc Beast:thumbup:

Don't blame me:blushing: