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Especially when the carb is a Walbro with the orifice plate.....Which gasket in the kit is right?!?!:bang:
I hate when the grip safety spring keeps popping as I'm trying to screw together the hand grip back strap. When it happens 5 times in a row and makes me feel stupid and pwned.........that's when frustration really kicks in. Time for a beer and a smoke stick. Maybe I should start using a spring clamp. Hmmmm
discounthunter
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circlips.
kentuckydiesel
ArboristSite Operative
Having 5 chainsaws, 3 trucks, and a tractor which all need parts...and knowing the wife will throw a fit if I buy them because she wants to finish restoring our house ASAP.
I've gutted and restored half a house over the past year, in addition to running a factory, clearing land, working on pastures, mowing, planting, and cutting/splitting firewood...'cause that's all we heat with.
Woman, Let up a little!
-Phillip
I've gutted and restored half a house over the past year, in addition to running a factory, clearing land, working on pastures, mowing, planting, and cutting/splitting firewood...'cause that's all we heat with.
Woman, Let up a little!
-Phillip
6 months ago I put a coil on my Redmax/Stihl weed whacker and now it needs a $150.00 carburetor. Needless to say that it is going in the landfill.
How about replacing a gas line because you found a crack in it.Now the new yellow line in the tank and the gas filter end is much to small to fit over the filter.Hooking the primer bulb up ass backwards.How do I know this? Ken
OH_Varmntr
Burner of stored sunlight
In no particular order...
1. Discovering need-to-know information AFTER you needed to know it. I rebuilt my 036Pro with a nice Meteor piston kit. Seemed to be a very nicely made piston, Caber rings, nice. I assumed the pin clips were just as high quality, but it wasn't until AFTER one of them came out and locked my freshly rebuilt 036 up after .7 hours of use effectively trashing the new piston and decent cylinder that I found out to stay away from them. Moral of the story? Go OEM on piston pin c-clips.
2. Finding important parts on the bench under the saw as you double check everything only to have to tear it down again to put the important part into it's place. It may or may not have been a piston pin c-clip that I forgot to install but realized prior to pulling the rope...
3. Placing an order for all the parts you need from the dealership only to have to halt the rebuild to wait on the stupid part that you FORGOT to order.
4. Cleaning the parts, only because I'm not equipped to clean parts. That's about to change. Guess this could qualify for not have the right tools.
1. Discovering need-to-know information AFTER you needed to know it. I rebuilt my 036Pro with a nice Meteor piston kit. Seemed to be a very nicely made piston, Caber rings, nice. I assumed the pin clips were just as high quality, but it wasn't until AFTER one of them came out and locked my freshly rebuilt 036 up after .7 hours of use effectively trashing the new piston and decent cylinder that I found out to stay away from them. Moral of the story? Go OEM on piston pin c-clips.
2. Finding important parts on the bench under the saw as you double check everything only to have to tear it down again to put the important part into it's place. It may or may not have been a piston pin c-clip that I forgot to install but realized prior to pulling the rope...
3. Placing an order for all the parts you need from the dealership only to have to halt the rebuild to wait on the stupid part that you FORGOT to order.
4. Cleaning the parts, only because I'm not equipped to clean parts. That's about to change. Guess this could qualify for not have the right tools.
I'm always good for that #2 you pointed out. I once tore down and rebuilt a 700R4 out of a Blazer. Put it all back together. Wouldn't shift into gear. Then I noticed a small pin on the bench that needed to INSIDE the trans. FML.
spike60
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The "surprise at the end". Recently did a complete rebuild on a Husky L77. (mine, not a customer's). Saw fired up and ran great. But SURPRISE it wouldn't oil. And oiler parts are NLA. (but I have a line on a parts saw). With something like that, there's no way to discover it without first getting the saw up and running.
Some of these surprises in the shop can be eliminated by doing things in the right order, and NOT paying too much attention to what the customer says, such as "just give it a service". Got burned a few times years ago by doing a service on a saw only to find that the piston was wiped and it had no compession. First two steps with any saw are to check compression and dump the fuel.
Someone already mentioned this but, guys jamming all kinds of incorrect hardware into a saw drives me nuts.
And no list like this would be complete without adding the customer who pleads that he absolutely HAS to have a saw by a particular time, and then doesn't show up for 3 or 4 days to get it.
Some of these surprises in the shop can be eliminated by doing things in the right order, and NOT paying too much attention to what the customer says, such as "just give it a service". Got burned a few times years ago by doing a service on a saw only to find that the piston was wiped and it had no compession. First two steps with any saw are to check compression and dump the fuel.
Someone already mentioned this but, guys jamming all kinds of incorrect hardware into a saw drives me nuts.
And no list like this would be complete without adding the customer who pleads that he absolutely HAS to have a saw by a particular time, and then doesn't show up for 3 or 4 days to get it.
Having 5 chainsaws, 3 trucks, and a tractor which all need parts...and knowing the wife will throw a fit if I buy them because she wants to finish restoring our house ASAP.
I've gutted and restored half a house over the past year, in addition to running a factory, clearing land, working on pastures, mowing, planting, and cutting/splitting firewood...'cause that's all we heat with.
Woman, Let up a little!
-Phillip
Now call wifey into the room and read her this as sadly we cant make her let up even a little,ha ha Jeff
xtremez
ArboristSite Guru
Trying to put the freaking recoil cover back on an 015, buying parts off flea bay that the seller says fit a certain model only to find out it doesn't 
, the first time you let your buddy run your new saw and when hes done he tosses it down onto gravel, the first couple carb rebuilds you did when you got done and the saw runs like crap then you find out you probably put the diaphragms on the wrong side of the gasket, buying a used roll of chain only to find out its 3 different kinds/ make of chain and having to go link by link and break and separate and finally, seeing people list crappy homeowner saws for 2 times what they're worth
, the first time you let your buddy run your new saw and when hes done he tosses it down onto gravel, the first couple carb rebuilds you did when you got done and the saw runs like crap then you find out you probably put the diaphragms on the wrong side of the gasket, buying a used roll of chain only to find out its 3 different kinds/ make of chain and having to go link by link and break and separate and finally, seeing people list crappy homeowner saws for 2 times what they're worthtimberland ts
ArboristSite Operative
When someone brings a saw in that doesnt run right and when you pull off the air cleaner cover and its packed right full. Then they say ive never had that off before. Same guys cant figure out why they blow a saw up every year or two.
Time
2Twannabe
ArboristSite Operative
+1!
Saw Dr.
Junk Collector
Well Spike, our customers must be kin. We have an absolute PILE of repaired equipment sitting there that was an utter emergency when it came in. Once the work was done (and parts invested) the owners just fell off the face of the earth. Just the other day I called a guy on TWO husky top handles that have been there for the better part of a year. Number disconnected.
Gonna be a big sale 'round here sometime. I'll grab all the good ones for my AS buddies. THe "Just give it a service" crowd is fun too. ME: "Sir, your crank seals are leaking and your impulse line is split." Reply: "That is a dayyum good saw! No way it needs $150 worth of work! Just adjust the carb and give me the bill...." Good stuff. Always fun when they come in with a sanded demo saw where the crank is so loose it isn't funny, but it will run.
Surprise at the end. Yep, got a "bad crank bearing" surprise just yesterday after fiddling with the fuel system on a nice looking 025 for a while. Now what do I do? New parts installed and saw is gong to be $$$ to fix.
P.S. Let me know if the 77 parts do not pan out. They come across ebay with some frequency. If not, I'll do some digging. I parted one a while back. Can't remember what is left in the box, or even where it is.
2Twannabe
ArboristSite Operative
Or weeks... and in rare cases doesn't come back at all. It used to bother me to have to sell a man's saw to recover my parts and labor. I got over it.
Reading your posts here, I imagined you enjoying time spent over your old MAC's:dunno:
Stratostreak
ArboristSite Lurker
Close to, but not quite to the point of getting out a hammer while wrenching:
1.) Correct part ordered: Wrong part sent.
2.) Correct part ordered: Defective part sent.
3.) Wrong part ordered: Wrong part sent. (luckily the 1.2mm thick rings Mistakenly ordered for a 044 Golf piston with 1.5mm ring grooves will work on the in house 372xp Meteor piston)
4.) Annoying and elusive tin chain rattle sound when rotating the flywheel on the 044...turned out to be the oil cap retaining chain in the oil reservoir....moving around via the flywheel magnet when rotated. LMAO when I discovered what the sound was 30 seconds after I heard it the 1st time.
5.) Inferior chain tensioners on disposable saws.
1.) Correct part ordered: Wrong part sent.
2.) Correct part ordered: Defective part sent.
3.) Wrong part ordered: Wrong part sent. (luckily the 1.2mm thick rings Mistakenly ordered for a 044 Golf piston with 1.5mm ring grooves will work on the in house 372xp Meteor piston)
4.) Annoying and elusive tin chain rattle sound when rotating the flywheel on the 044...turned out to be the oil cap retaining chain in the oil reservoir....moving around via the flywheel magnet when rotated. LMAO when I discovered what the sound was 30 seconds after I heard it the 1st time.
5.) Inferior chain tensioners on disposable saws.
