Hi, thank you for your patience. I picked up this decent looking 345 in a trade, and it ran on prime! I thought OK, that sounds easy, just rebuild the carb. Before I did that however, I got I t to run, but acted a little like an air leak idling tooo fast. Its got the dreaded plastic intake clamp so I thought I would just need to fix that, However, I discovered that a guy has to pull the cylinder to do that, which is a little involved for a guy who doesn't mess with clamshell saws. I noticed a couple strange things. Firstly; one of the cylinder bolts was quite loose. After removing the cylinder, I noticed that the seals looked odd to my untrained eye. One has a little metal piece on top of the seal and but pto side does not. Seal looks a little chewed up. Not familiar with this type of seal, does it simply slip over the outer circumference of the bearing ( impressive big word for a liberal, don't you think?)I assume I will need new seals, but what about that little metal piece that's just one one side and NOT the other? Also, the plastic bearing 'seat" appears to be a little melted? What happened, and can I just seal that up real well? The cylinder looks perfect, and the piston seems decent also. I probably wont keep this saw, already have too many that rarely get used.
