Naked Arborist
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Good idea, Thanks. Only problem is if they sell a piston like the factory one I'm better off with a used Meteor or similar part. The factory piston casting and machine work is JUNK!!! IMHO!
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Good idea, Thanks. Only problem is if they sell a piston like the factory one I'm better off with a used Meteor or similar part. The factory piston casting and machine work is JUNK!!! IMHO!
Well I guess your screwed then as all I know of for pistons for that saw are OEM.
You say that saw is clean? What do you want for it? I got a good top end here for it.
Naked Arborist
Hack from way back.
It's not for sale. It will get ported anyway. I'll run it and sell it if I don't like it. Everybody wants to buy them before they get done and always for next to nothing. :msp_rolleyes: Before I give stuff away I'll let the groundies kill it and make some money off it or just donate it to a worthy cause or person in need.
I wouldn't be so quick to call OEM stuff junk. I bought a cyl. & piston set from Poulan several years ago for the Poulan Pro Super 380 I was trying to resurrect. It is also a 60cc. I thought the quality of the parts were excellent. Ordered right from Poulan.
Here are a couple pics of the cyl.
Here is a video I posted a week or so ago of the saw still running very well. It gets used quite a bit. Its been several years, and I think it gets stronger, the more its used.
[video=youtube;mZqXWWRCd5M]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZqXWWRCd5M&feature=player_detailpage[/video]
Gregg,
Thats ok, I was just messin with you anyway for calling it junk. Like Gregg says there far from junk and acutally some of the best P/Cs out there.
You are free to you opinion though.
Now you going to spend a whopping $37 for a piston kit or not? Check out the price for a gasket set also, very resonable.
I wouldn't be so quick to call OEM stuff junk. I bought a cyl. & piston set from Poulan several years ago for the Poulan Pro Super 380 I was trying to resurrect. It is also a 60cc. I thought the quality of the parts were excellent. Ordered right from Poulan.
Here are a couple pics of the cyl.
Here is a video I posted a week or so ago of the saw still running very well. It gets used quite a bit. Its been several years, and I think it gets stronger, the more its used.
[video=youtube;mZqXWWRCd5M]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZqXWWRCd5M&feature=player_detailpage[/video]
Gregg,
I'm always glad to hear the old saws are junk. Can't get parts for them, under powered, completely worn out, never really was any good but my Dad had one, (would like to be able to say my grandfather, born in 1893, but he had his father's two handle cross cut saw). Means more in the house for me at a good price. Fun to fix up and better to run.
18" Bar
While you guys are on the subject of these saws, I'd like to get an 18", 3/8" pitch bar for my 365 I got recently. I know this subject has been covered many times, I just didn't have a dog in the fight till now. What's the best way to go? Small Husky or can you still find the K041 mount in 18"?
While you guys are on the subject of these saws, I'd like to get an 18", 3/8" pitch bar for my 365 I got recently. I know this subject has been covered many times, I just didn't have a dog in the fight till now. What's the best way to go? Small Husky or can you still find the K041 mount in 18"?
Steve, I think you can get a 18" power match in K041 but it will be .325 pitch. You could swap the tip to make it 3/8's though.
Probably eaiser to just mod the small Husky mount but a 18" will then use a 68DL chain.
Why bother with the 18", why not just stay with a 20" that uses the same 70DL chain as all your other old Poulan 20" bars?
Yeah, that's probably what I'll end up doing. Any thoughts on a muff mod? Wondered about just turning the deflector around. Sure would open it up, huh? :msp_ohmy:
Laser sales 41232 18" 3/8 .050
While on the subject of making modifications on bars this is one of 5, 16" bars that I made a spacer for and then drilled an extra oiling hole that you cannot see and made a new hole for the chain adjuster. For just 12 dollars a bar it was well worth it. These bars are made of some really hard steel, they dulled the bits out in nothin flat. I used a diamond burr to finish the holes off.
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Thanks, Tim, but they've grouped those saw types together with the 4000, 4200, 5200, etc. Those bar mounts are not compatible with one another. The mount for the saws listed here is D176 and the 365 takes a K041 or as Mark mentioned a modified K095.
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While on the subject of making modifications on bars this is one of 5, 16" bars that I made a spacer for and then drilled an extra oiling hole that you cannot see and made a new hole for the chain adjuster. For just 12 dollars a bar it was well worth it. These bars are made of some really hard steel, they dulled the bits out in nothin flat. I used a diamond burr to finish the holes off.
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14mm Dolmar mount? The adapter looks good but are the oil holes lining up? Hard to tell in the picture.
Yes I triple checked the oil holes and they were at the right height but by the time I adjusted the bar out for correct tension on the chain the oil hole was way at the end, so I drilled another one that you cannot see to be closer to where the oiler actually puts out the oil into the slot behind the bar plate. It is all good now. I am still surpised by how hard the steel is in these bars. I have drilled on oregon and carlton bars and never had one of those dull a bit like these sandviks.
Well now go back to the Poulan Pro website and look up up the service locator under customer support. You will find quite a few places you can order the parts local.
Ok if your in town Linton the closest one is 20miles from you but there is one in about each direction of you. Its not there fault you live where you do.
Oh, and when ordering from Poulan/Ordertree the shipping is pretty reasonable also.
We used to have a Poulan dealer right here, aprox. 3 miles from my house. The business is still there only he quit selling chainsaws and wood stoves, just sells motorcycle stuff now. I still go there occasionally to buy good 2 cycle oil.
Wagnerwerks
The underdog..
I'm going to assume You've already purchase his old parts saw stash.
Steve, I have a K041 20" 3/8" 50ga. bar if ya can't find one. The colors might clash though on the yellow saw.
I bought this back when I got the 380. Had it on the saw, but never used it. I found a better replaceable sprocket nose Poulan Pro labeled bar soon after, and used that instead. This one is the laminated non-replaceable sprocket. Good thing about staying with the 20", is they use the same 70 dr. link chain that most of my other Poulan's use. It helps when things are less complicated like that. For me any ways.
I just been keeping it as a back-up.
Gregg,
Actually, we had three dealerships go out of business and they didn't make it public, just one day they were gone. I've asked about parts and they told me they didn't have any left. The Stihl dealership stuff was sold to another dealer, the Poulan guy never did have a whole lot of stuff in the first place and Pioneer just went bust I guess. The Pioneer dealer was a hardware store and I don't think they serviced them. I can still find places to get parts for Poulans when the need arises.
Wagnerwerks
The underdog..
We had two poulan dealers. Both are stihl dealers now, but one still has my pile. The other threw away 2 dumpsters of old poulan parts right before I really got into saws. I almost threw up one his floor when he told me.
How to get them you say, then you say you can still find places to get parts for Poulans?
Which quote is it? Your confusing me. :hmm3grin2orange:
