Nclark

That’s pretty insulting considering you know nothing about me. and I have contacted the dealer who like I said was rubbish hence why I’m here asking for some help. as for qualified I’ve operated numerous chainsaws for along time and not a single one has got hot. I repair my own gear and never use dealers or service centres. Just because I haven’t come across this problem before does not make me unqualified. It’s a new saw so rather than take it apart and find the fault I thought I would ask the forum. the reason I came here was to see just on the off chance that I missed something and judging by the comments I have not which validates my concerns that the saw has an issue.

Hi yes I’ve double checked and ran with no bar to confirm oil is coming out and it’s pushing a lot of oil. the manual says the setting should be fine for almost most users but I turned it up to max but without pushing that pin down.

Hi I’m at my wits end now I’m hoping someone can help. I have an ms462cm I’ve just bought with a 25 inch stihl es bar and chain. I’ve used two tanks of fuel though it one to idle to bed in and within about 8 cuts though 20 inch ash the bar is to hot to touch and so is the oil tank on the front and the plastic top casing by the handle. The bar has already lost paint on the bottom middle section as you can see in the picture. the chain is tensioned correctly as per the book. ive checked the summer winter setting ive checked the oil is flowing (turned up but not past the point you need to depress the switch) I’ve checked air filter I’m using good fuel and good 2 stroke oil. and good bar oil. I took the bar off and ran the chainsaw and again, the oil tank from cold got hot to touch within about 3 mins of running. stihl support have been useless and cannot tell me if this is normal or not. their service centres just want to charge money to look at it and cannot offer advice. ive ran chainsaws before and I’ve never had this issue. can anyone shed any light on if it’s normal because I can’t see being able to run the thing for more than 10 mins before it would blow up.