wisecobandit

If you where a 70's child this will bring back memories.... [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMxzVK0p6GM]70's Kids TV Nostalgia.flv - YouTube[/ame] And the adverts for flake, old spice.....ah bisto.... [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZFqyAhvQWc]70's TV adverts - Best of (part 2/2) - YouTube[/ame]

Oh how about the program called "monkey magic" and pigsy?

Our phone number was 491. They then decided 6 villages should have the same area code so each village got a different 2 digit prefix so we ended up with 0647 61491. Then came the 1 after the 0 so ended up 01647 61491.... Remember when all London was just an area code of 01. And no ones mentioned the old binetone game you used to plug into the t.v with 1 wheel on the handset. Tennis and squash lol. Hand held space invaders? Original rubiks cubes? Space dust? gobstoppers, jawbreakers and aniseed balls that made your mouth red. Black jack liquorice sweets and fruit salads? Back when sweets where all in the glass jars behind the counter and you went in and bought 1/4 of a pound in weight. The hand ham slicers at every village shop...

Toolstation is where I get my carb cleaner and its pretty good stuff. I buy 6 or 12 at a time. Always end up getting a few other odd bits and when you spend £10 anyway you get free delivery.

I just started rubbing my hands together thinking it sounds pretty rebuildable until you made that comment

Am I the only 1 that finds the 346 a bit of a heavy munter?? To be fair I had the xpg which is heavier and didn't find it anything special even with a muffler mod. With the 346 on semi chisel against an ms250 with muffler mod and full chisel I used to grab the stihl every time as it was quicker cutting and lighter to. I much prefer the 357.

The 365 and 372 x torq models are exactly the same saw (same 70cc engine) apart from the transfer covers as Spud rightly says. That's the only difference. Tell him to save £130 or whatever the difference is now and buy the 365 then at a later date when hes happy or the warranty is out modify the transfer covers to turn it into the 372 or just buy 372 transfer covers.

Make sure you take note of the settings (ie turn each screw in and count exactly how much you turn them before they softly ground out) write it down and then remove them and strip the carb again before squirting cleaner thru. Also I always tend to have a quick look at the ends of the screws to make sure they are in good nick and dirt free.

Thing I missed first time around which should of picked up on. You say you cleaned the carb but haven't removed the limiters? You need to cut them off (sometimes you can just turn the adjuster and they will snap) but im unsure of what the limiters are like on a mokita. You need to get those screws out and squirt cleaner down them etc, You may have cleaned the carb body as such internally but until you have removed those 2 adjustment screws and cleaned them the low idle circuit cant be classed as being cleaned properly and could be your issue.

A good sensible choice after a 261.

Possible air leak somewhere? Check the inlet manifold well for cracks and splits/deterioration |Assume you have tried a different sparkplug? What does the colour of the plug look like?

Sounds like it needs a carb strip and possibly new diaphragm kit fitted and tuning back up.

The Hondas quads tend to require a carb clean every few years. They run much better once done and can get a bit grotty in the fuel bowl at the bottom of the carb. There is a slotted brass screw in the very bottom of the bowl also which you can undo and bleed out any water it may have built up in there which can help sometimes. Also theres a rubber diaphragm in the top of the carb which can split/hole altho that would give you a permanent rough running problem and not intermittent.

I had a 6 month old ford transit last week that had an earth fault due to the earth lead to ground off the battery having a crap contact, An earth fault can develop at anytime in constant use or stood up. Process of elimination is obviously battery first however jumpleads/jumping didn't solve the situation. Checking the earth is a 2 minute job and just as likely as a starter motor fault especially on a landrover No point rebuilding a starter motor costing money when you don't need to because you didn't do the basics by obviously checking its it had + and - when its free and takes 2 minutes

Down ere in Devon its prob the same peanut card that was behind the bar 20 years ago if it was a village pub Back when you could choose from about 6-8 different boxes of walkers crisp they had behind the bar. Salt and vinegar where always in blue and cheese and onion green so why the hell did they change it :confused1: Salt and shake crisp with the blue satchet of salt inside. Them fish and chip flavered jobs And lets not forget the glass CORONA bottles you used to take back and get a deposit back on. Started off as 2p then 4p then the grand sum of 10p!! Some of you guys must remember them? R Whites lemonade and coca cola out of glass bottles kept behind the bar - because draught soft drinks never existed back then

Why do they "have to" Jon? PPl have been claiming for the past 3 mths its due out within weeks but it never seems to happen. It will eventually no doubt but when is another matter. What have stihl done/said to all the 661 owners who sent there saws back on the recall does anyone know? I would be totally miffed if I had a saw for a month, it got recalled and 3 months later I was stil waiting.

My first choice of guess to. Link a jumplead from the negative of the battery to a good earth point on the engine and try turn it over again

Yeah Im thinking 2 weeks is an ambitious estimate. Ive not heard or seen of any actual date just hearsay.

Maybe we should start separate threads on how much was in your first wage packet, first car and favourite tv programs lol Wresting with Big daddy,Giant haystacks, Mick McManus and British bulldog... Ski sunday? The muppets on a sunday teatime The goodies with Tim Brooke Taylor Graham Gardner and Bill Odie... Then there where all the tv commercials that don't happen anymore. The hamlet cigar adverts especially. Advertising ciggys on the F1 cars - the likes of JPS lotus and embassy spring to mind. Back when racing was real racing.... Darts on Tv with players drinking pints and having a fag in there hand as they are throwing Alex Higgins half cut attempting to play snooker chain smoking. Oh yeah Felicity Kendall, I never looked at her arse as she was always quite chilly and talk about scammel wheelnuts...

Black widow catapults, gat pistols and pea shooters with haricot beans, slapsies at school....

Hell I never knew which was the best place. "in the hole" before the end normally meant slinging the bale back to someone who maybe stacking or you done it on your own and everytime you turned to walk back to the elevator there would be 3 upended trying to be sucked under the elevator. On the trailer meant walking back and forth, when unloading the rider lane and top couple of layer could mean dropping the bale down on the elevator only to see it bounce of onto the floor meaning you would have to hump it up onto the elevator later, and the bottom couple of layers meant humping them up anyway - moreso on low loader trailers. The big issue with the perry loader meant depending on what you where loading would only go upto about 7-8 layers high which meant loading the the last few layers from the rear of the trailer and trying to pile them up high on top the trailer to them take them down a few layers to stack them at the end.

Lol til death us do part - with Alf Garnett And "in sickness and in health" with Marigold that got banned in the end lmao. Cant see why... Hell tumble drier? What was that? It was all twin tub washing machines back then...

Now this could turn into an epic post but bear with me as this could become a bit of a "Remember when" thing So there I was driving down a country lane today thinking about time these bloody road hedges got cut and it triggered.... Being a farm boy as a young un it brought back memories of cutting hedges with an old finger bar mower on the back of a tractor , then picking up the hedge parings by hand throwing them in a trailer and dumping them in a field to burn them there. Lots of smouldering piles loitered the area with bonfire smoke.. Then there there was also the stubble burning, plough around the perimeter of the field several rounds and then chain an old tyre to the back of a tractor and throw diesel or oil on it to drag around the field to get a good field burn. So then I started thinking what the earliest tractors we had on the farm, ford 4000's 5000's and an international 574 and a county for when 4 wheel drive was needed. We also had a tracked field marshall "putt putt" which was old even back then, crank handle start or a pelletless shotgun shell would fire that beast of a single cylinder engine up (hence the putt putt name as they where called) but boy that thing would drop a chisel/mole plough 4 ft deep in the ground and pull it. Back then farms only really had 1 4wd tractor due to implements being much smaller and John Deeres hardly existed or had a good reputation. As a wee whipper snapper I would watch the old man milk cows by putting a chain around there neck to solid post and fill milk churns up. No bulk tanks and automated systems back then. The first milking parlour when they came out was duly bought and fitted and would milk 6 abreast at once! now its normally a 12/12 herring bone milking 24 at once! The school holidays where mainly spent baling and dreying hay before the the corn started. Again we had the latest technology a new Holland 1540 combine with a 14ft head which was the bees knees after the old allis chalmers that would cut 8ft! 5 tonnes trailers where pretty much the biggest back then...Now 18ft+ can be the norm alongside 8-10 tonne trailers sometimes bigger. The local bobby would pop into the "always unlocked" farmhouse for a cuppa and slice of fruitcake "in lieu" of turning a blind eye of seeing my brother or I driving up the road with trailers of hay/straw and corn from about the age of 10. Small bales where the only way to bale, having to stack them in 6's or 8's to allow the old perry loader on the massey 35 to load them up onto a trailer. Every farmer had a blue danarm chainsaw before stihl really came around. Strimmers?? what where they... Every rotovator you ever saw was a huge orange howard gem. Buy a petrol mower and it was always a mountfield. First computers where the applemac/bbc micro or zx spectrum 48k! What was a mobile phone? Back then it was a whirly gig house phone not push button. 3 tv channels and massive excitement when channel 4 came out. Trying to find it on the wooden cased t.v with a windy dial and then realising it only came on after 6PM. Think the only thing they used to put on was "Flash Gordon" and that was in black and white and always fuzzy. I could go on and on but hell im only 43 but how times have changed and you realise how much you've actually seen advance on the technology stake. So what stands out in other peoples memories? Im sure the above may "jog" a few peoples memorys :lol:

1122 640 3201 £33.41 + vat is the stihl part number for the 1.15mm oil pump Dual port stihl cover is 1122 140 0800 but £39.64 Both available from l s engineers (google search it) Hyway do a good dual port exhaust aftermarket job . "Stihl as good" does them on ebay for £24 with free delivery

Its already fitted with a dual port muffler and high output pump before its even fully built or had an ounze of fuel thru it