Nik's Poulan Thread

[Modifiedmark]

it's a real saw! I only sold a few of them, it was a short lived model, it was a Poulan-Pro version of a 4000 basically, with a chain brake. the weird part was they were assembled in the Great White North! This was done as we were told at service school, because all the big CC pro saws were being built in one location. This was not long after the pioneer purchase.

Hey, a new Poulan guy drops by, WELCOME!

Glad to hear you have some Poulan experiance to share with us. Keep it up!

 

[HeRoze]

He's all healed up and fitted with a more appropiate 14" bar, thanks to Mark.
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Have to wait on the weather for test cutting.

Cool. I dropped down to a 14" bar but only found an affordable safety chain, and the pace of this thing is now killing me (slow). I use my heavier saw with the 18" normal chain when I don't feel like waiting. So, I have to decide between a heavy fast saw v. a small (now slow) saw.

 

[briantutt]

Snow and wind is hitting pretty hard here, I just came in from plowing my drive and the dead end road I live on. Blowing back in about as fast as you plow it out, but just trying to stay ahead of it. I heard from Mike, they just got rain in his part of KY.

Thermistor says 2 right now here...

 

[Modifiedmark]

Thermistor says 2 right now here...

20 here with a zero wind chill........

 

[redunshee]

hmmm. you the dude who outbid me?:beat-up:

Hmmmm. Don't know Dude.

 

[redunshee]

20 here with a zero wind chill........

Bout same here. 15 right now and this is Dallas area.

 

[Modifiedmark]

Bout same here. 15 right now and this is Dallas area.

Well I got plenty of snow here for your sleds if you want!

I think I'll spend my time in the shop though instead, thank you....

 

[briantutt]

20 here with a zero wind chill........

wind chill? What's that? -20 to -30 tonight if I think that way!

 

[OhioGregg]

Mark, Nik, Gregg, how y'all making out with the weather? Just pour another whiskey and put another log on the fire and everything will be alright.

Right now, combination snow & sleet, ice wind.30-40mph. 21, wind chill zero. Sucks!!! bout all I can say for it..lol Just stayin indoors and keep the furnace supplied with POULAN cut wood!


Gregg,

 

[Duke Thieroff]

Right now, combination snow & sleet, ice wind.30-40mph. 21, wind chill zero. Sucks!!! bout all I can say for it..lol Just stayin indoors and keep the furnace supplied with POULAN cut wood!


Gregg,

Ohhhh.....I'm getting it now. Firewood cut with a Poulan has more BTUs. I can see the commercial.


"I'm going green. A cord of Pine with a Poulan is worth a cord of Hedge with a Homelite."




Chris

 

[stubnail67]

*chuckels*

Its in the 70s right now i was thinking of taking a cool shower cause its a lil hot in the house hehehe!:hmm3grin2orange:

 

[OhioGregg]

Ohhhh.....I'm getting it now. Firewood cut with a Poulan has more BTUs. I can see the commercial.


"I'm going green. A cord of Pine with a Poulan is worth a cord of Hedge with a Homelite."




Chris

LOL, Your right, probably could make a commercial.
I couldn't make a comparison like that though. All my wood is cut with Poulans.

I just hope I don't have to go get the generator out tonight. Wind is really howling tonight. Back in Dec. 2006 we lost power for a week in ice storm.
Year later Bought a 11,000 watt generator. Have only used it a few times since, in summer..

Gregg,

 

[OhioGregg]

Its in the 70s right now i was thinking of taking a cool shower cause its a lil hot in the house hehehe!:hmm3grin2orange:

Thats OK Stub, When its 70 and nice here, will think of you down there in Fla. where it 95 & humidity to match, and a daily t-storm..LOL

Gregg,

 

[paulyb21]

3.7 oiler

A balmy 8f up here and no snow yet. (....and 49 if everyone else is fessing up on age)

Trying to find/search for the info on here for Oil pumps: picked up that grey Craftsman 3.7 from a few pages of posts back...you guys have been typing!

piston looked real good (it is the chromed one, thick rings :3800 style), new plug, filter, adjusted carb, gas lines are actually FLEXable. Runs pretty good but no oil yet. Got a good used brake for it too.
Reading about that "quad" ring right now....(p/n 19029??)

Nik is right about that leak, my 3700 was doing that the other day as well.

Mike, the manual oiler has what they call quad rings on the pump and they can wear out and let the oil slip past.

Is there a rebuild kit part number or am I chasing my tail?
I Will have to pull the clutch in the morning to see what I need, and try out the info I found so far...re/ stuck check valve, missing springs, cracked tubeing etc

no oil on manual or auto mode, well nothing like the 3.4 poulan
Hi Mark You aren't by chance working on a picture/posting tutorial of a rebuild like your gas line tutorials?. Those were great thanks They helped me out.

PB

 

[kmcinms]

Poor Stub

Hey Stub, I bet it gets lonely way down there where you never get to actually burn anything you cut...oke: :hmm3grin2orange:
We got a few days of warm air up here and I plumb went berserk without my fire places going. It's dropping into the 20s here tonight and now I got both inserts boining.
I did cut up a big red oak Satty at the scout camp out, along with a bunch of downed trees. We burned wood at two camp sites a solid two days outside. Slept by the fire Satty night under the stars. Good times. :biggrinbounce2:

 

[dave76]

Looking to be a few inches of ice here in NJ, were looking to break the record of ground snow cover which stands at 58 days of 1" or more snow cover.

Also, hey Stub Greg is right, We'll be thinking of you in June when it's 75°F here and it's 100°F with 85-90% humidity in Fl, at nite. Lol

 

[stubnail67]

Lmao!

hey we have fire bowls to burn in the back yard and drink beer even in summer! and yea it does get hot in june july and august and the sketters suck !!! matter of fact i was born and raised here the heat i dont mind!!! the skitters i hate!!!!!ya all dont have them do ya? or alot of snakes or gators etc!I have to say i love all the big trees ya all have and the woods!!!! I have to drive 3 or 4 hours to get to the woods!!!! i am 5 minutes from the beach though and great fishing so it has its plus's and minus's!!!and there aint many poulan saws to be had around here!!!!!! think of that!!!!

 

[kmcinms]

I hate it for ya bro'. :rotfl: J/K
I live in the woods, or whats left of them. Dern progress around her kinda sucks :rotfl:. Had some 100 ft. Hickory, Red and White oaks all around me till someone decides it would be better to build a house with a pond there.
I'm up here in Sipp, it hovers around a hunnert during the summer with plenty skeeters, snakes and gators. Sis in law lives 1 mile from the beach, so my vacations are easy when we go to visit. :beer:

 

[Nardoo]

It was around 100 degrees here today and we just had a nice thunder storm to cool us down to around 85. Really big cyclone hitting up north which will send lots of wet air down our way. Been a very wet year with lots of floods. My dear wife cannot wait for winter but I like it hot!

I cut a heap of wood last weekend with my new Poulan 375 and it was covered in the sweat that was rolling off me but the old Poulan didn't care a bit.:smile:

Al.

 

[Modifiedmark]

A balmy 8f up here and no snow yet. (....and 49 if everyone else is fessing up on age)

Trying to find/search for the info on here for Oil pumps: picked up that grey Craftsman 3.7 from a few pages of posts back...you guys have been typing!

piston looked real good (it is the chromed one, thick rings :3800 style), new plug, filter, adjusted carb, gas lines are actually FLEXable. Runs pretty good but no oil yet. Got a good used brake for it too.
Reading about that "quad" ring right now....(p/n 19029??)



Is there a rebuild kit part number or am I chasing my tail?
I Will have to pull the clutch in the morning to see what I need, and try out the info I found so far...re/ stuck check valve, missing springs, cracked tubeing etc

no oil on manual or auto mode, well nothing like the 3.4 poulan
Hi Mark You aren't by chance working on a picture/posting tutorial of a rebuild like your gas line tutorials?. Those were great thanks They helped me out.

PB

PB, there are no rebuild "kits" per say for that oiler.

Parts are getting a little harder to find but there are still some out there. The 2 main working parts are the diaphragm and the check valves that are built into the pump.

I guess you need to tear it down like you said to see what is going on. Since you get no oil at all, it sounds like you got a stuck/bad checkvalve, plugged pickup screen or a broken plastic feed tube from the pump to the bar pad.

Do you have the service manual for that? It goes into a little detail on it in it.

PM me if you don't..

Gotta go start plowing snow now, bbl.