Hello all I recently acquired a 266xp in pieces in an old box . It had cooked the top end but the bottom end still seemed fine so for 100$ I took it home with a still new in the box aftermarket top end. After a few hours of cleaning and assembly I had it back together with its new top end which unfortunately is an open port cylinder . Now I still need to break it in but early results aren’t overly impressive and the saw is very easily out cut by one of my old p41’s running the same bar length . Now I’ve started cleaning up the old cylinder and believe it may be salvageable with a bit more work just a touch of transfer left and two short scratches by the exhaust port now a few questions has anyone here used the highway 50 mm pop up piston from wolf creek or the whole highway top end from them with good results. I may try my hand at porting the oem cylinder because of the damage and wear in it are there much gains to be made ? Or best to leave it alone if you don’t really know what your doing lol
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If there is a meteor piston available for it that's what I would go with if it were mine and I wanted a good running dependable saw.
Yep they are available through wolf creek as well Thanks
My old 266 is now my favorite saw. Perfect size and power for me.
First of all what took out the old cylinder has to be looked at seals should be changed anyway and if it was the carb block area use new green gaskets when putting it back together and yes I like Hyway quality and use a caber ring on the piston if you can.- IMO
And it's easier to assemble the carb on the cylinder before installing the cylinder
Hard working saws, those 266’s cut many a cord with them , 
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266 great old saws easy to work on a d bomb proof, I got three and all run like they did 30-40 years ago
