Questions:
I 'back flushed' the oil soaked/sawdust caked air filter with brake cleaner. Good enough? Hot soapy water safe?
Brake cleaner will probably dissolve the adhesive holding the flocking material to the screen. Is the screen itself visible? If there are just a few small bald spots you can put a dab of silicone sealant over those areas. Diluted purple cleaner works well for cleaning filters. If the filter has obviously seen better days (i.e. looks like a screen door), then just replace it. There were several styles of filters used, all are available. Back in the day, a lot of filters were cleaned by swishing them around in a clean container along with some 2-cycle mix. Then the filter was allowed to air dry before reinstalling in the saw. The oil from the mix helped the filter trap very fine dust. (Note: You do NOT use the mix used for cleaning the filter in your saw!)
Do the fuel and oil caps get 'o" rings? They both leak.
The fuel cap uses a cork gasket. The oil cap does use an o ring. Some of the oil caps are solid. The saws these were used on will have a tiny hole drilled into the oil tank along with a very small cotter pin inserted into the hole to serve as a vent. Most of the oil caps are vented by means of a tiny rubber duckbill valve set inside the cap. Look at the underside of your oil cap & see if there is a round opening in the center of it. Don't know what kind of material McCulloch used, but they seem to turn into some sort of sticky black glob. I have a couple of NOS caps that the duckbill valve has literally melted without ever being exposed to gas or oil.
Is clutch nut r.h. Or l.h. (both type are listed on the ipl)? I want to clean the oil off the friction surface.
Should be LH on a DD saw. Grease the clutch bearing while you are in there.
Are the bar plates required (p.n. 64330) ? None are present. It has a "rim sprocket'.
The bar plates should be used. They help protect the bar pad in the event that a chain is thrown. They also help provide a better seal between the oil outlet located in the bar pad & the oil hole in the side of the bar.
Why does the bottom of this thing look like they used it as a snow board on the driveway without the benafit of snow.
You should ask the original owner. Maybe they just couldn't wait a minute longer for the snow to arrive.
The saw might have been stored on a concrete floor and/or a damp environment. I was looking at a 10-10A one time & the seller was trying to start it up. The seller pulled & the recoil spring did not retract the rope. The seller then literally flipped the saw on to its side on his asphalt driveway & slid it around to get a better look at the recoil. Some folks either don't know, or don't care, or both.
Thanks fellas!
You are welcome. Have a nice day.
Need to get this thing shaped up. Fraternal order of police lodge hall has two large pines that need to come down. Gonna need a bucket truck on the one.
Don't forget the coffee, the donuts, & some spare sharp chains.
