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so there i am trolling kijiji when all of a sudden a titan 57 jumps out of the screen at me.
way back in '92-93 and '94 i worked at bentons small engines. we sold a ton of these, and had a ton come back within a month or so. all had the same problem, fuel and impulse lines. they would be totaly ruined due to the owner NOT reading the manual (or listening to the dealer) and using ethanol blended fuel and the fact that mcculloch italy used (for lack of a better term) p.o.s. line right from the get go. the line inside the tank would be perfectly fine. however, the line between the tank/handle assembly and engine would basicly crumble to dust. why didn't they use the same dammed line everywhere? never got an answer to that. ever. we would use windshield wiper line to fix them and off they went to never be seen again. some needed a top end after the owner decided to try to get just one more hunk of wood cut up even though the saw would just scream and die and bog, but that one piece of wood just needed to be cut gawd all be it! and they would be pi$$d when they were told that was abuse by the book of mcculloch and they would have to pay for the top piston/cylinder and labour to get the saw up and running again. some were left to rot....
AAAAAAANY WAY. heres the saw i bought: i loved the titans. i crack jokes and ridicule them, but i do think they were a good saw. too bad mcculloch didn't truly see the potential in them.
the complete saws piston has a good gouge on the exhaust side but i have 2 other topends. probably from the fuel lines saying bye bye. it's the same damage i have seen many times. the cylinder if perfectly fine.
basicly almost 2 complete saws plus an extra crank case and various parts.
i didn't feel to bad paying out fiddy bucks for the lot. didn't even bother to ####er with the man. in my mind it was a good deal anyway. i'll have no problem with parts as i have pretty much all the parts to build a few saws from nos parts john still has. it'll be up and running the next weekend i have off. can't hardly wait!
VROOOOOOM! VROOOOOM! VROOOOOOOOOOM!
way back in '92-93 and '94 i worked at bentons small engines. we sold a ton of these, and had a ton come back within a month or so. all had the same problem, fuel and impulse lines. they would be totaly ruined due to the owner NOT reading the manual (or listening to the dealer) and using ethanol blended fuel and the fact that mcculloch italy used (for lack of a better term) p.o.s. line right from the get go. the line inside the tank would be perfectly fine. however, the line between the tank/handle assembly and engine would basicly crumble to dust. why didn't they use the same dammed line everywhere? never got an answer to that. ever. we would use windshield wiper line to fix them and off they went to never be seen again. some needed a top end after the owner decided to try to get just one more hunk of wood cut up even though the saw would just scream and die and bog, but that one piece of wood just needed to be cut gawd all be it! and they would be pi$$d when they were told that was abuse by the book of mcculloch and they would have to pay for the top piston/cylinder and labour to get the saw up and running again. some were left to rot....
AAAAAAANY WAY. heres the saw i bought: i loved the titans. i crack jokes and ridicule them, but i do think they were a good saw. too bad mcculloch didn't truly see the potential in them.
the complete saws piston has a good gouge on the exhaust side but i have 2 other topends. probably from the fuel lines saying bye bye. it's the same damage i have seen many times. the cylinder if perfectly fine.
basicly almost 2 complete saws plus an extra crank case and various parts.
i didn't feel to bad paying out fiddy bucks for the lot. didn't even bother to ####er with the man. in my mind it was a good deal anyway. i'll have no problem with parts as i have pretty much all the parts to build a few saws from nos parts john still has. it'll be up and running the next weekend i have off. can't hardly wait!
VROOOOOOM! VROOOOOM! VROOOOOOOOOOM!
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i always found 18" to be the biggest they liked. and thats how we ordered them. they were a good price, about $380+tax. the pm700 were about $450+tax at the time.
