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Hello! Thanks for your reply! I don't quite understand the last sentance though, might you be able to explain a little further?

Afternoon, Finished wacking the 385 back together today, all went fairly smoothly. Cocked up filling, drilling and tapping a cover screw hole so had to redo that and learnt a few more lessons. I got a proper gauze filter from Tillotson in the end, rather than mess about with jamming other gauzes in. Anyway, it's in one piece and wearing a 28" bar and chain. I let it idle for a minute or two, shut it off, let it idle and revved it a couple of times then shut it off, did this a couple of times just to let things bed in and then tried it on a few bits of wood. Went really well, and I'm pleased with my efforts so far. I believe it is running a bit lean at the moment though, and I'm struggling a bit with adjusting the carb. The L screw is quite easy to rotate so it's difficult to feel if you've got the screwdriver engaged and you're making a difference. I might try a different screwdriver to see if that engages a bit more easily with that one. I think the coil is limited, its light blue in colour and when I try to set the high screw the tachometer shows 4-6000 rpm, which clearly isn't right, in the cut its showing 11000 ish rpm, so I assume I'm currently bouncing off the limiter. Thinking about the situation, should I richen the H side up until its max revs are below the limiter and then lean it out till the tach shows 13000 rpm or so?

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We've had to get them out of road gullies before. On another occasion I had a call to rescue a hedgehog from a gully, when I arrived it turned out I was about two weeks too late. ?

It does 'feel' like fuel starvation. Carb settings don't make it any better, but do make it worse. I did pull the carb off and clean it, wasn't much wrong as far as I could tell, but when checking the fuel filter I did notice a leaf floating around in the tank, so a more thorough flush of that is required.

Actually, now I've gone back to fiddle with it. It won't even stay idling for any length of time properly. Seems happier when on its side, starter up.

This is one of those jobs I really wish I'd not started, but it's too late now. My sister's father in law has an MS211 which has started running poorly apparently. I don't expect it has been looked after and I assume will have had old fuel sat in it for some time. I got hold of it and couldn't start it. Didn't seem to have a spark, so fitted a new coil and plug, few pulls and it starts on choke, cuts out, starts on the half throttle position and then idles after a quick pull of the throttle. The saw will idle for some time although occasionally cuts out but if you open the throttle it'll cut out and die. I've reset the high and low screws to 1 turn and 3/4 turns out as per the casing and it idled better but still doesn't rev. I've pulled the exhaust off and the piston looks fine. I assume to start with I should fiddle with the low and high screws to see if I can get it to behave somewhat better, but has anyone any ideas about what I should be checking on the saw. I know my way around the husky 3 series, but never done anything with a stihl before.

Thank you!

Thank you! I've got a little pile of old carbs. Hoping to find one that fits or make something up. Looks like someone fitted one that was too large before and poked the tip of a screwdriver through it.

I wonder if he means the nose sprocket?

Awesome. Thanks Steve, it is a tillotson and it does have the notch. I was wondering about if it should hook in. I'll sort that out later. Sadly someone has poked a hole in the existing gauze prior to me getting hold of it.

Also, can you get generic material for the gauze filters or is it best to go with the specific part. I've found money has a small hole. Might have a used one in a 372 carb I suspect.

When rebuilding the carb, I assume the metering arm needs to be level with the base of the bowl on the tillotson carb, not the actual flat of the body? I think in this case it needs to come up ever so slightly?

I've got the woodchuck dual too. Really handy tool. Bought the foot for it but didn't really get on with it so have barely used it.

I've used these a fair bit. They are great tools.

Near us people are parking in passing bays on single track roads to go for walks. Absolutely no consideration for large vehicles or other people trying to use these roads.

I've encountered a lot of assholes on bikes recently, also a lot of assholes generally. People just don't give a shit about anyone but themselves.

Yeah, the one from the guy who posted seems to be a 2020 week 8 saw, but its missing a lot of the info and text from the guaranteed genuine plate. His doesn't seem quite right, but if it isn't genuine it's a really good looking copy with a lot of effort put into it.

Hmmm. Maybe the plate isn't quite right from this one I found...

It looks really real, the screws are the same torx bits as seen on the new saws, the serial no. Plate looks real, but, it is supposed to be a 2020 365, surely that should be an x torq not the old oe cylinder with the decomp on the side? Or is this one of the models sold to countries without the emissions laws?

Tried loosening the chain to see if it is better? They don't always feel smooth. The clutch, drum and oil spur drive are fitted right? I've spent a lot of today using my 346, I really like that little saw, hadn't entirely appreciated how good it was until today ought to spend some time and effort tidying it up and sorting a few of the little niggles.

You just need the bar and chain if you've already got a .325 setup. I have a 346 with a .50 speedcut bar and sp33g chain and I think its impressively quick. The cut is narrower so chain speed stays high, easier sharpening as there is less metal. I guess they do wear quicker as there is less metal to take the wear. The sp33g is semi chisel, so you may prefer chisel.

I think it was squashed. Poor old thing.

Yeah I saw that, the end of the crank where the circlip is fitted is damaged, and I just don't feel that enthusiastic about it when they refer to the cylinder as the 'engine'.