Nik's Poulan Thread

[altatim]

Big girl BP 655 , going West Coast style,

Dream saw right there! Not many hanging around

 

[OhioGregg]

Big girl BP 655 , going West Coast style,View attachment 1215752View attachment 1215764View attachment 1215765

Great looking saw! And yes..they are big girls, with some serious butt. I have a 655bp that the last time I used it, the oilier quit working. I had it completely apart several times and couldn't get it working. So set it aside and just haven't got back to it. I replaced the recoil cover on mine, but never got it painted, so makes it look odd.

 

[Squareground3691]

Great looking saw! And yes..they are big girls, with some serious butt. I have a 655bp that the last time I used it, the oilier quit working. I had it completely apart several times and couldn't get it working. So set it aside and just haven't got back to it. I replaced the recoil cover on mine, but never got it painted, so makes it look odd.

Nice , yup gotta keep those big classics going,

 

[snobdds]

Great looking saw! And yes..they are big girls, with some serious butt. I have a 655bp that the last time I used it, the oilier quit working. I had it completely apart several times and couldn't get it working. So set it aside and just haven't got back to it. I replaced the recoil cover on mine, but never got it painted, so makes it look odd.

Nice saw. I have been searching forever for a bar like that for mine.

 

[Squareground3691]

Outerwear Setup,

 

[bob kern]

Outerwear Setup, View attachment 1217362 View attachment 1217362

I never see those era poulans here. I have a 5200 , but drove a long ways to get it.

 

[Squareground3691]

I never see those era poulans here. I have a 5200 , but drove a long ways to get it.

That one is a lot of fun to run ,

 

[Gumneck]

I never see those era poulans here. I have a 5200 , but drove a long ways to get it.

Same here around the Mid Atlantic area....Never see the big poulans and honestly seldom see large saws of any brand.

 

[JohnL]

Don't mean to break the conversation, didn't see any other Poulan specific stickies..

I wanted to ask about doing a chain pitch conversion on a newer Poulan. I have a PP5020 running std 3/8 on a 20in bar. The saw is slower than the PP4218 I have, which is running 3/8 lo-pro, 18in bar. Want to convert the pp5020 to .325, open the muffler a little to get better cutting speed out of it.

I'm looking at using a Poulan Pro 4620 or PP295 sprocket in .325, since none was offered for the pp5020. The other issue is for bar mount pattern, the pp5020 is K095, the pp295 is A041.

Has anyone done this conversion, how did it work?

 

[RedneckChainsawRepair]

@JohnL Just run it's cousin's clutch drum. .325 spur drum 574521501 for 5020

4620 clutch drum wont work. Done been down this road 11 years ago and save info for it over the years.

Plenty of K095 bars out there in 325 for 5020.


Very last page of this 5020 thread. I had used a echo drum before the same saw cousin saw was set up with 325. So the spur drum in 325 can be bought. http://chainsawrepair.createaforum.com/poulan/poulan-pro-5020/

Order online from a husky dealer.

 

[farmer steve]

I know I've seen questions about what paint guys use for various saws. This was on a FB poulan page I frequent. Maybe one of you guys. The saw the guy did looked good. Just a FYI.

 

[bob kern]

Anyone have a source of or one of these? Broke one!