Base Gasket Delete Gone Wrong?

[Okie294life]

i just tried to do this on my 038mag stihl. Cleaned everything up good, laid a bead of yamabond on the case and slapped the cylinder on there. Torqued the head bolts tight, then got a decent torque wrench and found out they were over torqued, so I brought them back down to factory specs. I let the yamabond and loctite setup on the bolts for 24 hr. Went to run it today and it idles like crap and wants to scream when the throttle is applied. I assume there’s an air leak, could there be something I didn’t do right?

 

[HarleyT]

could there be something I didn’t do right

Yeah....

 

[HarleyT]

Did it run fine before you farked with it?

 

[HarleyT]

Be honest....

 

[Okie294life]

Be honest....

No I had a gasket in but not torqued right so it pulled the head bolts loose. I decided to get right and actually buy “the correct torque wrench” The delete seemed easy so I tried it. I may go back to gaskets if I can’t get this to work right, but the allure of higher compression is a definite plus. Looking back I should probably have just torqued the head bolts and rolled with it, but I’m learning. These pro saws are new to me. I can rebuild a clamshell, or fix about any trimmer that exists.

 

[Deleted member 117362]

Did you vacuum check?

 

[HarleyT]

Did it run fine before you farked with it?

So, explain why and what you did.

 

[HarleyT]

So it was not running "right", and you guessed that somehow it had to do with the bolt torque/gasket thingee?

 

[Okie294life]

Rebuilding it, sorry. Got it second hand it had a stuck piston ring, and had been sitting for several years it looked like. I did all the seals and rubber and new piston. It was running pretty good until I discovered the head bolts had backed out.

 

[pioneerguy600]

Did it run fine before you farked with it?

https://www.arboristsite.com/community/threads/head-bolts-loose.328487/page-2#post-6795565

 

[HarleyT]

Wow!!!
You actually read all of this ****???

 

[HarleyT]

The Superbowl has started.....

 

[Suzuki]

I'm in the exact same boat with a Husqvarna 55 right now with a base gasket delete.
Idle is very high,
high and low carburetor adjustment screws do nothing as well as the idle adjustment.

No vacuum/pressure test (don't have those tools)
No idea if the thing ever ran right as I got the saw with a burned up piston. I have a possibility of it being a crank seal on the chain side as the saw was run hard enough with the chain brake on to melt some plastic on the chain brake housing.

I'll be watching this thread....

 

[HarleyT]

The superbowl sux..

Did you read this other thread?

 

[HarleyT]

It needs some canadians whacking each other with a stick!!!!

 

[HarleyT]

The superbowl, that is......

 

[pioneerguy600]

Wow!!!
You actually read all of this ****???

Every post, every night.

 

[pioneerguy600]

The superbowl, that is......

Pats 3 , end of first half, Rams 0

 

[cus_deluxe]

It needs some canadians whacking each other with a stick!!!!

Theres curling on too...swedish babes vs south koreans i think...

 

[pioneerguy600]

#6...!!