034 Back to Life! Thanks Curt Bailey

[highsiera]

I finished rebuilding my 034 last night, buttoned up the shrouds about midnight. New piston, emery honed cylinder, all new hoses and filters, rim and sprocket, new carlton 20" bar and chain. Soaked the carb, cleaned everything and even buffed the plastic. I was jazzed all day at the prospect of starting it up tonight, all the while telling myself I'll be playing the "fuel or fire" game for a couple of hours. You can imagine my shock and amazement when she turned over, fired and ran on the second pull. Runs like a new saw. Tomorrow I'll fine tune the carb and off to cut some big oak next saturday. I can't tell you how gratifying the whole process has been.

Special thanks to Curt Bailey @ Bailey's Stihl Chainsaw Parts Plus for hooking me up with a second set of rings for the piston he sold me after I over-lubricated myself with miller lite and broke the first set installing the piston in the cylinder. (link to his store below). This was my first internal teardown on a saw and of course thanks to all the AS members who helped out when I got stuck. Now about that old 044 I was thinking about....
Brian.

Curt's store:
http://stores.ebay.com/Baileys-Stihl-Chainsaw-Parts-Plus?refid=store

 

[Lakeside53]

Yep... it's a great buzz when a major (it's all relative) rebuild leaps to life... but now you're hooked for life

 

[stihlatit]

Yep... it's a great buzz when a major (it's all relative) rebuild leaps to life... but now you're hooked for life

Yep Lakeside thats just how I felt after you helped me with my 066 Magnum. BTW she is still running like a champ. Mr. Kafarski has some good piston cylinder kits there.....I thank him as well for the feel goods....Just relived them through this thread....thanks Highsierra...as I knows how you feel...Its a good accomplishment.

 

[RiverRat2]

Ditto on the feeling good and hooked for life

Yep Lakeside thats just how I felt after you helped me with my 066 Magnum. BTW she is still running like a champ. Mr. Kafarski has some good piston cylinder kits there.....I thank him as well for the feel goods....Just relived them through this thread....thanks Highsierra...as I knows how you feel...Its a good accomplishment.

We are havin fun now, & yep Curt Bailey has hooked me up with some good parts before too Good deal to get an old friend back in the line up!!!

 

[Scandy14]

Saw repair

I just recently resurrected an 034 that I bought as a "junk" saw. Honed the cylinder and put in a new piston, and she runs like a new one. It is a great feeling to get a saw running again.

 

[Gatsby174]

I'll never forget the feeling of firing up my first rebuild. It was a ts-350 chop saw that we used when I was ironworking. And i've been hooked ever since...
JC

 

[amdburner]

Congrats!

Highsiera,
Congrats on the rebuild. It is always a great feeling to get it right the first time! I recently rebuilt a Jonsered 920 which is my first chainsaw rebuild and it to started without a hitch. I just aquired another 920 in need of resurrection and once I can locate a starter assembly and coil for it I should be able to get her ripping.

Dave