Takng Swings at Golf...
I'm having a heck of a time finding a piston for this thing. Oem is sky freakin high price wise and the only aftermarket I can find is a Golf which I would prefer not to use. I guess I will if I must though.
Any of you Husky guys out there know if the 45mm piston from a 51 is compatible?
You know, i like this industry. The people in it are honest and hard working, and willing to offer assistance whenever they can. Even if they aren't as well informaed as others, they still want to offer their assistance even if they have to make something up that sounds good, or close to a reasonable answer. They just want to help. But others take receiving help as a sign of weakness, which it is certainly not. Life is short, so rather than make a mistake that soemone else has, and waste time and money which are both in short supply these days, why not take what's offered, if only in honest consideration? There are many other companies in the world than the ones we are personally familiar with that offer very good products and services that are considerably cheaper than larger, well-known companies. Aren't we all in the business to make money? Only most of us aren't willing to make it by stepping on the backs of other individuals like some larger companies out there. Now i'm not trashing any company out there at all, but because golf is a bit cheaper compared to factory parts, there is a reason for this: the company that offers the original created the part, whereas the other company is offering a re-created copy of that part. If you want the same quality car part that lasted for 10 years, then go back to the factory and buy the same part from them for 300. If you want a reasonable facsimile for a fraction of the price, go to NAPA, but don't expect the same quality or longevity. Any air-cooled machine can easily overheat and cause irreparable damage to any number of parts. Once overheated, a piston crown, one of if not THE most stressed area of an internal combustion engine- being made of metal btw, will expand. The pin can easily through inertial movement or vibration work it's way out of its seat and into the exhaust port to destroy the engine. You cannot blame this on the part itself, any more than you can attribute this exact cause with 100% certainty. Golf, like any other manufacturer, has defects occasionally. You as a consumer should not attribute this to poor manufacturing processes, just a bad luck of the draw. And usually, when soemthing does go wrong in the process, it's a whole batch of a certain part that's affected, not just one. So to knock a company because of a few negaive occurrances is not very realistic. And simply repeating what you hear from others or even adding their stories to your own, is not very responsible. If business as a whole teaches any of us one thing through history, it's that you generally get what you pay for, and there is no such thing as a free lunch.
~Dave