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Dadatwins

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Working on a 044 today that I picked up on ebay in the garage, replaced piston and cylinder and reassembled. Decided to check carb and clean it out at the same time. Put everything back together and locked into the vise to start and nothing. Gave it some fuel prime and saw runs and dies. Start backtracking, pulled plug, check spark, check compression, staring at this thing for an hour. :mad: Ready to call it a night, start to put tools away and find the carb diaphram sitting on the bench. Put the diaphram in of course the saw starts right up. :) They really do run better when they have all the parts. ;)
 
I have done a big job then pulled the rope a few too many times myself. Mine usually run once I put fuel in them.
 
Dadatwins said:
They really do run better when they have all the parts. ;)
I thought a good mechanic always has extra parts leftover after it is all put back together ;)
 
lostone said:
I thought a good mechanic always has extra parts leftover after it is all put back together ;)

If it runs, extra parts always OK, :eek: but when it doesn't, now there is a problem. :cry:
 
RUNS after I wrench on it, wow some people just want it all :eek: , I haven't rebuilt a saw YET but I have done some gunsmithing, been in a rush and at the end and all ready to go out and test it out just to realize I left a part out and had to tear it all back down again put it back together and have to wait till the next day to go play with it, now that is frustrating.
 
Nothing like the feeling of realizing where the problem lies, and it is in the mirror...

Frequently with my recalcitrant computer, I realize it is a loose nut between the keyboard the the chair :dizzy:

I took a Husky 41 apart once, and then reassembled it. I pulled that darn starter rope for the longest time, and was at my wits end. It had spark, but for no reason I could see was not getting any gas. Turns out that when I put the handle assembly back on the body of the saw, the fuel line got pinched...

Wow - after I got through laughing at myself :p I fixed the problem, and lo and behold it started right up...
 
well im glad somebody else, finally won that award.. things been taking up space here too long.. send me u shipping address. :)
 
Happens to us all.My worst,was a Chevy 350.I forgot to torque the # 1 rod cap.11,000 miles later,it came apart like a dollar watch,duh.It is easy not to make mistakes,don't do anything. :eek:
 
I was putting a piston in my 045 in the freezing cold. Got her all back together ready to work and what do I see laying underneeath the saw? Two piston pin clips. Had to tear that sucker ALL the way down. And 045s aren't the easiest saw to work on.

Chris B.
 
Replacing water pump on an old 58 merc. Power everything and everything had to come off. Last item to go on IIRC was the power steering pump. Yep, the first thing that SHOULD have gone on was the bracket to hold it. 2 hours of wrenching down the tubes.

Harry K
 
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turnkey4099 said:
Replacing water pump on an old 58 merc. Power everything and everything had to come off. Last item to go on IIRC was the power steering pump. Yep, the first thing that SHOULD have gone on was the bracket to hold it. 2 hours of wrenching down the tubes.

Harry K

Hello to all. Had an old farmer bring over an old Jeep, that had caught fire and burned most of the wiring under the hood. He wanted it rewired enough to start, run and have headlights so that he could use the Jeep for plowing around the barn and his driveway. Well replace the cap, rotor, sparkplugwires and rewired everything else, to what he wanted. Fired up the old Jeep and noticed an orange glow under the hood from the drivers seat. Grabbed the fire extinguisher and put out the fire. Damed thing was still in my garage. After looking found out what the problem was. The fuel pump was leaking, which was located above the distributer (6 cyl. overhead cam). It leaked fuel down and around the distributer and caught fire. Replaced the fuel pump and a couple more wires and told him to come and get it. We took it to his place and I was never so glad to get that thing out of my yard. Guess we were both thinking something shorted out the wiring. You never know.

Was told once, a good mechanic, is one who can fix something so that no one else can fix it. Well it almost happened that day. Was putting one of my old saws together and tried to be so carefull not to damage anything. Pulled and pulled, looked and no spark. Took her back apart and I somehow pinched the spark plug wire. Another saw would just flood and drip gas out of the carb. Took the carb apart and found that I hadn't put back, a screw in plug insside the carb. Guess it shows that no matter how carefull you try to be something can happen. OH well, guess that's life. Things could be worse, but so far things have been pretty good. Take care. Lewis.
 
Lets see, I spent 30days swaping out running gear out of one truck into another truck. Got 750miles away puliing 16k GCW and I keep getting a fuel starving problem along with a lean back fire. Back fire turned out to be a bad distributor bearing. Still can't find the fuel problem and it can't be the carburator as I rebuilt that before I left on the trip.

Of course the engine died while pulling a long grade. So I think maybe a bad float or the needle sticking. So I Open the top of the carb and there lies a bee on the main jet. The bee must have been on the cover in shop when I rebuilt it.

The best one, I was working next to the roof and needed a tool so I climbed down 30ft of ladders, walked for 10min thru the plant to our remote shop, tore apart my tool box and cuss because I can't find that dam tool, when the super asks me what I'm looking for.
I say "just like this tool here" as I'm holding up the tool I was looking for and that I carried down the 30ft of ladders while I walked for 10min to the remote shop with the tool in hand.

What was that all important tool? You got me as I still can't remember what it was!
 
We've all done that once or twice.

I once went looking for a vacuum cleaner, spent 20 mins looking, both normal storage closets, and the rest of the places I could think of, it was RIGHT in front of me, in plain view I might add, didnt see it, and wasted 20 mins looking where it wasnt. finally found it in the shop sitting right there on the floor.

Its almost always a problem that's right under your nose causing so much trouble, and most of us, me included dont even see it. I cant help but laugh at your last one T Bone.
 
If it weren't for brain f***s, I'd have no fuel at all. I had torn down an Onan twin to replace a bad cam gear. Cleaning up the bench before going out to run it up and there is the new gear, still in the box. Old gear nowhere to be seen. NUTS.
Another time a Remington Mitey- Mite had no spark. Replaced points-no spark. Replaced condenser/coil-still no spark. Installed known good mag. Nada. Installed dead mag in another saw, worked fine. Scratched head, didn't help.
About three weeks later I picked up the little twerp again. Bar and chain were off this time and the saw was pulling over backwards!!! Customer had installed the rewind spring and rope incorrectly. The F-M rewinds would still work that way. Fixed the rewind and the miserable little sumbee started on the first pull. Had a good laugh at myself.
 
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