spudulike
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Well that saved me digging out my trusty photos:thumbup:
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Just get a socket and grind the usually rounded or concave end to a complete flat so it locates on the shallow hexagonal centre of the clutch better
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And the Yanks call them jugs, I once explained that jugs were ears or devils dumplings but think I lost them:lol:
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Had a local guy with what we believed to be a slug of diesel in his petrol, the saw smoked like hell and put out a fluid that was like kerosene. I put it down to the fuel and flammable element of the diesel burning leaving the less flammable elements to be ejected as fluid. The saw ran again and should cause no issues!
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Nice one Andy,spot on:thumbup:
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Same here and no waiting for the tank to fill:thumbup:
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Think you had one of these last year didn't you Barrie? Didn't some bright spark change the filter cover as well confusing what the route cause was:001_rolleyes: Reasonably common issue, usually caused by not pushing hard enough on the screw and forcing it round!
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If you wanted a second opinion from me then read the above....again:thumbup: My experience of seized 346XPs is that they do score the cylinder but you may be lucky. I do have a nearly new OEM kit but would need a good offer to part with it:blushing: If you go Chinese - make sure the cylinder has closed transfers as the originnal does! If you go this route , fit OEM or Caber ring to the piston!
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And very helpful it was Barrie:thumbup:
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Now they make decent hedge trimmers, got two myself and they aren't for sale:lol:
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Yes, quite happy with the way it is going, these saws always had a lot of torque and revved pretty high so this should get the old girl going a bit. You should find it a bit lighter after I have removed all that chip in it - I thought I had found a field mouse nest in it at one stage:lol:
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Saw a picture of a guy who had kickback right in to his face whilst using a topper at head height - it was horrific....really horrific. Another was an opened up arm by someone pulling a scabard off a running saw - never knew tendons were so white:thumbdown: Good luck with the project:thumbup:
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You could try taking it back to the delaer and getting them to explain how to start it but if you want to try...... Take the top cover off, pull the plug out, turn the saw up down with the ignition OFF, pull the saw over briskly a few times - you may get fuel running or vapour coming out of the cylinder. Leave the plug out over night and then replace it tomorrow and go through the normal starting procedure - chances you missed the first fire of the engine on full choke first time and flooded it:blushing: Good luck
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Do you want that aerosol ported, should be able to get a 25% kill rate improvement out of it:lol: Just given me an idea for the Hornets nest I have in my dormer roof:thumbup:
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Possible compression issue but likely to be the valve clearences or auto decomp, these engines are not the easiest to work on and are a mare if they play up - good luck with it.........I would never have anything other than two stroke small engine saws, trimmers, strimmers etc:lol:
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You are forgetting the residual value of the saw on resale -Stihl maintain their value as do Husqvarna although probably not quite as well whilst the rest of the mentioned saws plummet. Buy a quality brand, you may be able to get something like a 345/350 Husqvarna for around £150, they are both deent and powerful machines!
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Been working on a 254XPG today, dirty but working state, in for a refurb and porting. I have widened the exhaust port by a fair bit, the inlet less so, heavily modded the uppers and just reprofiled the lowers, don't want to hog them out too much otherwise I will lose transfer velocity adn with it a fair bit of torque. Rumour has it that the 254XP out performed the 266XP when Husqvarna designed it so they sleeved the air filter down to restrict it a little....so I reamed it out a little:thumbup: Nice job, looking forward to trying it:thumbup:
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Funny you should say that Andy, got one one the bench that I am doing at the moment - first one and is looking...interesting:thumbup:
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Technically a ton is a measurement of weight and M3 is a measurement of volume/size and as such, the volume is determined by the density of the material. What I am trying to say is a ton of unseasoned Oak will be much smaller in size/volume that a ton of seasoned poplar!
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Andy Collins did quite a review on his quest for the best hedge trimmer and it ended up with Echo, from this I got one and am happy with it - very good AV and cut. I haven't used the latest Stihl one but it may be worth your while looking at Andys thread on this site!
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Yup, saws smell sweet when they leave my workshop - which is more than they do when they come in:001_rolleyes:
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Agree on that one, classic symptoms, thing to do is to only fill the tank half full, start the saw and then tip it on its side and loosen up the fuel cap and see if that improves matters, if it does then it is the tank vent. Almost all the carbs I have are in serviceable condition and fixable, many just need a damn good clean so even if it isn't the tank vent, it isn't the end of the world!
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Only reason I posted it was to make Rich feel better about himself:lol: Warm glow - I guess, at least it isn't destined for the landfill now:thumbup:
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Do you have £550 for a new saw? Is there anything wrong with the 254XP?
