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There is a short engine available for this machine ( crankcase,crank,cylinder & piston ) just build the rest of the machine onto it part no. 576829701

Offer him £50.00 for it they were not that bad, depends on how much work you intend to do with it, the drive was a pto shaft from the side of the Briggs engine, there is not much to go wrong with it, i had one for a good few years.

The 136 had leakage problems from between the pick up hose and the delivery hose, so this was replaced with a combined tube, the pump cylinder slides into the new hose, this normally made oil leakage much better, the assembly should stand proud so as when the outer plate is fitted and the bar tightened up a better seal is given, the filter was uaually a spring pushed onto the delivery pipe, if the oil is thich this can retrict oil flow, so pull the spring to open up the coils to allow better oil flow, the pump shaft not only rotates but has a throw, there should be an ecentric in the plastic pump gear which runs on a steel pin, turn the pump gear by hand and check there is a throw, the bigger the throw the higher the oil flow, never run the saw with out the bar and chain connected there is a high chance of the clutch cominh off on the over run, if no bar and chain are fitted remove the clutch and sprocket and check the oiling this way, the drive gear should be a tight fit on the crank, check its condition and that is is still tight.

All Husqvarna forest and garden products carry a 12 month warranty, with a second 12 if the product is registered on line by the dealer or customer, warranty is a fault in materials or manufacture, not miss use, abuse, lack of service or maintenance, because auto tune is fairly new it gets the blame for just about everything, due to emmision laws auto tune is here to stay, Stihl are also supplying machines with there version of auto tune, there is even a fuel injected Stihl power cutter so emmissions are having an effect on the way machines are being produced today and in the future.

A .325 sprocket is readily available for the 236, as the earlier 235/240 ran .325 as standard, this was dropped in favour of the 3/8 low profile chain, sprocket no. 530048132 .325 7 tooth

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2100/2101 were good old machines, the only issue buying older machines is aquiring parts for it, 281/288 were good machines, or even a 380/480, all these models are old school but run very well, but you must think about parts availability.

The Noram clutch is not adjustable or servicable, there was two versions of the clutch, the early clutch had a pressed steele pulley on the bottom, the later noise compliant clutch had a cast pulley on the bottom, the importer of the clutch was Broadbent drives, there part no.s were early clutch CB117, later clutch was a CB127, if they are still about you should find them on the web.

As i recall the 1100 and the 2100 had a red Femsatronic one peice electronic unit, this was replaced on the 2101 to a black SEM unit, at the same time the flywheel was changed to go with the unit, the black SEM unit was also used on the 480 and the 265RX, unfortunatly the flywheel was different from the 480 amd 265 due to having three starter dogs rather than two, if you can get the later unit and electronic unit you can retro fit it. Unit part no. 501831901 flywheel 501832201

You have no chance of buying a new 346 or 357, you may pick up a decent second hand one, but you need to know what your buying, there are numerous auto tune saws from Husqvarna,545,555,550,560, the 545 replaces the 353 and cheaper than the 550 so why not give it a go make sure its a 2013/14 production machine. good saw.

The amount of fuel your talking about i would say has to be the needle valve in the carb leaking, the only real test is to pressure test the carb with a small bulb tester, this will tell you straight away if the needle is leaking, there is no need to remove the carb, pull the fuel hose out throught the filler, remove the fuel filter, connect the tester to the hose, there is no permissible leak allowed, you only need approx 2/3 psi.

If this is a non X Torq 365, just fit the 75cc clinder from the Husqvarna 375K instant power increase.

480 Was a great old saw, but before you start pulling carbs off awaus start with the easiest and cheapest things first, use a suitable wire hook to pull the fuel hose out of the tank and replace the fuel filter on the end, the pipe is barley long enough to get the filter out through the filler hole so go careful or the filter will come off and the pipe shot back into the tank

If you are not getting on with the tooless brake, change it for the non tooless brake part no. 544097901, you can then have a 13mm nut which can be done a lot tighter, you need to check the machine is oiling the chain correctlt as it could be the chain stretching.

Great system, a very under estimated addition to a number of Husqvarna saws, it utilises the original brake, so there is very little to go wrong, the powers that be in the UK have removed it from the price list, a great shame, i have worked on many trio brake saws and would recommend to everybody, if the German saws had this available they would be shouting it from the roof tops