Nik's Poulan Thread

[rms61moparman]

hopefully I can run it at a gtg :msp_biggrin:.

Heck I'm impressed with the stock s25da :msp_cool:

The new one won't be going to the porter!
But there is one in the works!


Mike

 

[Modifiedmark]

Well the S25AV is on it's way to Kentucky!!!


Mike

Glad you got it, I was tempted as with the 3000 in Fla but I'm trying to cut out the duplicates.

There was one I didnt post up though and just finally got through on the phone to them to find it sold already.

A Super 72 bow saw would have been sweet!!

 

[a. palmer jr.]

Glad you got it, I was tempted as with the 3000 in Fla but I'm trying to cut out the duplicates.

There was one I didnt post up though and just finally got through on the phone to them to find it sold already.

A Super 72 bow saw would have been sweet!!

I'm tempted to thin down my crop of S25s and Micros...I figured they'd be more valuable cutting wood than selling.

 

[MS460WOODCHUCK]

A pleasant ebay experience, fast shipping, was what he said it was, clean and well maintained. Started and ran. It is on the bench now. A questionable repaint, a small piece of starter cover broken off, and compression not as much as I hoped. It came in at 130#, which I thought was a little low for the thin ringed 3.7:dunno: Muffler's off for a mild mod, and piston and cylinder look OK.

Debating if I should take it all the way down and see what I have.......and repaint it. Or, just slap a B & C on it and cut.

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130 is pretty low for a compression # on a thin ring 3.7 IMO. Mine shows roughly 160 on my gauge and runs like a scalded dog...

 

[tomdcoker]

New Old Stock Poulan Chainsaw Owner's Manual Hex Wrench for Model Super 25 | eBay

I thought this may be of interest to someone. Tom

 

[Guido Salvage]

Anybody here get this? Guido?

I sent an email about 6 hours after the ad was put up, with no response, and it was deleted 24 hours later.

Have not visited this thread recently, but I did buy this lot a couple of Sunday's ago. I was at my daughter's swim meet in Louisville and decided to take a look at the Richmond CL and spotted the ad about 3:00 and e-mailed the seller. I heard back from him shortly after 5:00 as I was walking to my car. I suspect having a cell phone with a local number helped me out over Tom. I ended up having my sister meet him in a Food Lion parking lot to pay him off around 7:00 that night and reimbursed her via PayPal. Hope to pick them up when I go back for the GTG in April.

 

[Guido Salvage]

A Super 72 bow saw would have been sweet!!

I picked up one in VA when I was there in September, i will try to bring it back with me next trip. Of the dozen saws I got in that haul it was the only one locked up...

 

[MS460WOODCHUCK]

the compression seems a little low, but the gage is the same one I have and they have been questioned in the past. How does it compare to your other saws? Mine blew 180 on my Poulan 4200 and only 165 on my Dolmar 7900....both saws seem healthy, but my 3.4 Poulans seem to blow 130-135 on the same gage and they run fine.

I have 2 different brands and always use both to get the #'s. They are always with in 3lbs of each other. My 4400 pulls a solid 165lbs...I do not doubt your 180 on your 4200 myself.

 

[cmarti]

the compression seems a little low, but the gage is the same one I have and they have been questioned in the past. How does it compare to your other saws? Mine blew 180 on my Poulan 4200 and only 165 on my Dolmar 7900....both saws seem healthy, but my 3.4 Poulans seem to blow 130-135 on the same gage and they run fine.

The tester is a cheapy, but this 3.7 blows 5 lbs less than my 3400 on the same guage. Sorry to be the newb asking a ton of questions, but.......I pulled the jug tonight and the cylinder looks pretty good and the rings are floating, but there is some scoring on the exhaust side of the piston, under the rings. New rings help, or do you go with a piston assembly? Not much you can do with an aluminum piston I assume.

Acornhill and Fossil gave me a couple of leads. I can get a 3700 piston assembly at Mowtown or PartsTree for $60. Any problems dropping that in a 3.7? It runs, maybe I should go cut with it first? Thanks for the help and patience.

 

[a. palmer jr.]

The tester is a cheapy, but this 3.7 blows 5 lbs less than my 3400 on the same guage. Sorry to be the newb asking a ton of questions, but.......I pulled the jug tonight and the cylinder looks pretty good and the rings are floating, but there is some scoring on the exhaust side of the piston, under the rings. New rings help, or do you go with a piston assembly? Not much you can do with an aluminum piston I assume.

Acornhill and Fossil gave me a couple of leads. I can get a 3700 piston assembly at Mowtown or PartsTree for $60. Any problems dropping that in a 3.7? It runs, maybe I should go cut with it first? Thanks for the help and patience.

I think I would go out and see how it does before I would start buying parts. You can tell if it's low on power. Mine just has 120 and I don't plan on doing anything to it, at least not for a while..mine's a thick ring saw though.

 

[redunshee]

the compression seems a little low, but the gage is the same one I have and they have been questioned in the past. How does it compare to your other saws? Mine blew 180 on my Poulan 4200 and only 165 on my Dolmar 7900....both saws seem healthy, but my 3.4 Poulans seem to blow 130-135 on the same gage and they run fine.

I'd say your gauge is fine as 130-135 on a 3400 is about as high as I've seen, w/o cylinder work.
Bob

 

[redunshee]

I think I would go out and see how it does before I would start buying parts. You can tell if it's low on power. Mine just has 120 and I don't plan on doing anything to it, at least not for a while..mine's a thick ring saw though.

I agree. Also you could try cleaning up the piston a little. If your fingernail doesn't catch on the scoring, you should be fine. You may also try flipping the rings around,i.e. top to bottom, etc. Sometimes this helps.
Bob

 

[barneyrb]

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[jerrycmorrow]

...but there is some scoring on the exhaust side of the piston, under the rings...

pix would help

 

[67L36Driver]

Let us know if you receive them. I've had orders seem to go thru but then in a couple weeks hear that they are NLA.
Bob

Email from OrderTree lists the order complete and a USPS tracking number.:msp_thumbup:

We be in fat city.....................................................

 

[67L36Driver]

'Thin ring' question.

What is the dimensions of the Poulan 'thin ring' applications? Bore x thickness x end gap.

It would be nice if one set matched the Pioneer P-41 application. 1.875" bore x .0235" thick x .070"-.080" gap.


O.T.O.H. What if one could sub. a Poulan 1 7/8" piston for a Pioneer of the same bore. They do appear to be rather generic.

 

[cmarti]

pix would help

I will break out the camera tonight.......A photographer or photographic I ain't......but will give it a shot.

 

[Chris J.]

I haven't been on AS very much over the last copule of weeks, playing catch-up in the Poulan sticky alone is taking forever .

If anyone is in Albuquerque, NM, this PP4620AVHD might be worth checking out:

Poulan Pro PP4620AVHD Gas Powered Chainsaw 20" 50cm Blade 46cc | eBay

Any interest in old poulan microfiche? I could ask for the old stuff at my local. I think he's going to chuck it.

Back when digitized imaging starting taking over hard copies & microfilm/fische (MFF), there were (still are????) companies that would do digital conversions. When I was in litigation records one of the companies we used to print long MFF documents that we couldn't handle in-house started digitizing MFF. Even though they had the foresight to start digital imaging early, they still went under.

 

[redunshee]

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[Acornhill]

holy manuals Batman

I received a delivery today, these are NOS manuals most of which are still wrapped in plastic. most of the duplicates will be available once i inventory them and run through to make sure there are no issues with them. Some of them have the scwrench and or allen keys with them. i will be up all night reading :msp_biggrin:

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