I seem to be quoting my previous post. (Unnecessarily) Trying for more pictures. 1, 2, or 3?
Nik's Poulan Thread
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I seem to be quoting my previous post. (Unnecessarily) Trying for more pictures. 1, 2, or 3?
Sometimes the pics upload twice. Sometimes not at all. It seems uploading pics here has been inconsistent for a while.
Nice looking saw. I don't know them all that well but I wonder if that's a very early model.
There needs to be a better way to do this and I wish I kneww how to do it. Trying with thumbnails. Are there a total of ten distinct photos now? After a fair amount of pulling, it started. With the help of the owner's manual, I got it running pretty good and made some cuts with it. Did not even sharpen the chain. 
Fossil, I don't know either why this (and some others) have the xxv on the one side and on the other side under where it says automatic oiling, it says model 25da. I think the case and the manual are cool to have with it.
Now how about some suggestions on good sources for the carb kits I need for the other two? And all the other equipment I have to fix up. I would like to have some lace local I could walk into and walk out with what I need, when I need it. Having to order things and wait a week for things to come in sure breaks up the flow of a repair job.
Thanks in advance.
Thanks in advance.
Mine has S25DA on the recoil and XXV on the clutch cover. Maybe yours is a 33cc version? Check your Inbox regarding the carb kits. Order and you should have them in under a week. Locally a small engine shop should have them.
Small engine shops tend to have about the same hours that I work, and I haven't found a good one around here that I can get to, at least since the one down on the corner closed 15 - 20 years ago.
If I stole it, how come the pawn shop made $18 on it?
I do think a hand guard on the front handle would be good to have. Has anyone done that? somehow?
And incidentally, the pictures in the manual for installing bar and chain show no bar plates, nor does it mention any. I'm pretty sure when I was reading up on these saws, I saw questions about if it uses 1 or 2. Apparently, at least on some versions, none were used.
And my 100th post, too!
If I stole it, how come the pawn shop made $18 on it?
I do think a hand guard on the front handle would be good to have. Has anyone done that? somehow?
And incidentally, the pictures in the manual for installing bar and chain show no bar plates, nor does it mention any. I'm pretty sure when I was reading up on these saws, I saw questions about if it uses 1 or 2. Apparently, at least on some versions, none were used.
And my 100th post, too!
Fossil, thanks for the information.
16:1 mix ratio. If you don't have Poulan 2 stroke oil, you can use 30 weight motor oil. It smoked a bit when it started; maybe the last owner had actually been using that ratio. (The tank was not dry.)
16:1 mix ratio. If you don't have Poulan 2 stroke oil, you can use 30 weight motor oil. It smoked a bit when it started; maybe the last owner had actually been using that ratio. (The tank was not dry.)
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Are you still looking for a cover?
Looks to me like you have a very nice example of an early 25DA. Here are couple pics from a 1972 Poulan brochure.
The early Poulans, like yours, pre-Weedeater/Emerson Electric, was still called Beaird/Poulan Inc.
Was right around their 25th. anniversary. I think the color change happened after the merger, to a more green look.
Yours is probably points style ign. also, with the slide switch on the recoil cover. I think also that later, 38cc versions had the toggle switch on the center housing. I think they had a D and a DA versions. Only difference being auto-oiler and manual oiler.
I think Fossil is right also on it being the slightly smaller 33cc version, at 2.1 cu.in. Where the later ones were 38cc at 2.3 cu. in.
Gregg,
Just wanted to add my 2 cents (and thats about all its worth!) LOL, about the 25 or XXV designation on these saws. The 25 has nothing to do with cc's or cu. ins. Poulan saw company started in 1946. This model with the wreath with the roman numerals XXV, was to designate their 25th anniversary. When they came out with this light weight saw. They must have just kept the 25, as a model number for many more years. I'm sure ModifiedMark, or someone else, knows some of this history a whole lot better than me, and can confirm or debunk my statements. 
Gregg,
Gregg,
XXV. If the world were a rational place, that designation should only have been used for one year, their 25th anniversary year, and that would appear to be 1971, give or take. A 44 year old saw. Or to put it in Romanspeak, XLIV. I got the "Rugged, lightweight case" but the only accessory I got was the manual. It indicates the screw for the bar/clutch cover should have been an Allen head and the saw should have come with a wrench for it. I wonder what else was included, or available.
Slide switch on the recoil cover: yes. Recoil cover says it is Model No. 25DA.
Slide switch on the recoil cover: yes. Recoil cover says it is Model No. 25DA.
I got this Poulan 5020 for free due to a circlip coming loose and grooving the piston and cylinder. I got another new piston and cylinder which were very cheap and I was surprised. Well any ways got it put back together today and did some test cutting. I also did a few mods while apart. Can't leave things alone you know.
I thought this was interesting. The transfers have removable covers making it a closed transfer port.
I thought this was interesting. The transfers have removable covers making it a closed transfer port.
Dug into a few of my projects today. 3.0 3450x3 475
So the 3450 has a 60cc cylinder on it. So is it like the 3750 then?
When I do it it will. I was going to pull the one 3450 piston and use a 335 cyl on the 3.0 But the 3.0 was like new inside. So didnt pull any tops yet.
The 60cc top in the 3450 in box will be going on the 54cc 3450 without cover.
Got ya.
I was following your mods. How did you like the saw once you were cutting with it?
