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Good job, those service bulletins are nice to have. If all the saws got black tags in 87 that confuses me some as my silver tag 490 Serial number is 301065 higher then the 5161157 shown in the SB. IDK but I find it hard to believe they made at minimum 301065 490's in one year. Maybe other models had SN in that range too?

Well I don't know that the black tag came out in 87......just that my 87 590 has the black tag. My 490 (83 & 84) are silver tags with the date and then the serial#.
I did a compression Check, 180psi. After a closer look I see that the top fins on the cylinder is cracked and a small piece broken. I think it'll ok though. Although 4 fins on the fly wheel is broke off. Not sure if this will effect cooling or not


I would worry more about the flywheel fins rather than the cooling fin. If they are all in the same place it will affect the engine balance.

Scott has one for sale......he has a LOT of Partner parts....

https://store.chainsawr.com/products/partner-chainsaw-500-5000-flywheel-w-starter-pawls
 
They run pretty well considering their age. I just bought my first new saw in 33 years a few weeks ago . Till then I have really run the Partner almost exclusively since I was very young. The first saw I ever had was a Jonsered 510 sp,.. in my opinion a very under built saw. It was constantly falling apart so in either 83 or 84 I bought my first 5000+.View attachment 631985

Damn Jeff......it's a wonder you didn't buy a bucksaw after that 510sp being your first saw.....you'd been way further ahead......at least it would have been dependable and just as fast as any of those 5XX saws......except the 590 of course.....
 
Damn Jeff......it's a wonder you didn't buy a bucksaw after that 510sp being your first saw.....you'd been way further ahead......at least it would have been dependable and just as fast as any of those 5XX saws......except the 590 of course.....
Dan just bought a 5000+ today, its now at my place....LOL
 
My Mom bought me that saw to help try to get some firewood for the house. I am not sure of my age but I was young very young between 13 & 15 maybe? I was so young the dealer really did not want to sell her the saw . He was quite certain it would kick back and kill me !
Dad passed away in 73 and I was 10 at the time,.. we heated almost solely with wood and ancient farm house. It was 2 story 13 rooms 12 light hand pressed glass windows . No insulation save for newspapers thumb tacked deep in side the walls to " break the wind" some .All we had for a wood stove was a Modern Glenwood parlor stove in the living room and we had an Oil stove in the kitchen. It took a little 3-4 gallon metal can with a spring affair on the cap. You would go out to the shed where we had 2, 55 gallon oil drums mounted horizontally up on a rack. Each had a lever squeeze valve spigot,.. you take an the old tin funnel and fill the oil can with kerosene lug it into the house and tip it upside down into a stand /holder where it would gravity feed into the oil stove and soak a wick and you would light the wick and viola heat.
 
My Mom bought me that saw to help try to get some firewood for the house. I am not sure of my age but I was young very young between 13 & 15 maybe? I was so young the dealer really did not want to sell her the saw . He was quite certain it would kick back and kill me !
Dad passed away in 73 and I was 10 at the time,.. we heated almost solely with wood and ancient farm house. It was 2 story 13 rooms 12 light hand pressed glass windows . No insulation save for newspapers thumb tacked deep in side the walls to " break the wind" some .All we had for a wood stove was a Modern Glenwood parlor stove in the living room and we had an Oil stove in the kitchen. It took a little 3-4 gallon metal can with a spring affair on the cap. You would go out to the shed where we had 2, 55 gallon oil drums mounted horizontally up on a rack. Each had a lever squeeze valve spigot,.. you take an the old tin funnel and fill the oil can with kerosene lug it into the house and tip it upside down into a stand /holder where it would gravity feed into the oil stove and soak a wick and you would light the wick and viola heat.

Oh yeah......I know all about that.....still have the 3 gal can an pedestal down cellar. My first sawwas an old Lombard 3C Woodlot Wizard.....no where near new... I was in 7th grade we burned spruce slabs.....same kinda old house.....
 
Yep Jeff definitely would have felt the 5000+ a giant upgrade from the 510sp!!!!!!!
I have a bunch of them, 500, 5000 and 5000+ and they were real rippers in their time. I would use them yet today but hate to run saws that way with parts being so scarce.
 
I have a bunch of them, 500, 5000 and 5000+ and they were real rippers in their time. I would use them yet today but hate to run saws that way with parts being so scarce.
I have a mint 400 and 2-5000+. They are on the shelf lookin pretty. One 5k I might use sparingly just to shame some of the newer saws in it's class.
Shep
 
I have a bunch of them, 500, 5000 and 5000+ and they were real rippers in their time. I would use them yet today but hate to run saws that way with parts being so scarce.

I run them sometimes, common parts are not that hard to find really. They share sprockets, clutches intake sleeves, impluse seals etc with the Husky 50-55's. For 500 pistons and ring, a 44 mm Husky 350 works crank seals are standard metric, 15x26x4. Some parts are still available from Husqvarna/Poulan. I have some parts saws and some NOS parts packed away, AV mounts recoil springs etc.

Have fun with them.. Here is a 81 500 with the Ignitron ign20170904_174544 (Custom).jpg
 
I have been wanting to do a 500 project saw for sometime but just never get to it. I got another couple black case 500's and a couple 5000 closed port jugs. I was wanting to cut the bottom of the transfers out like that Joey in Kentucky was doing to the closed port husky 55's and use a solid side piston in them and in this case use a Husky 350 piston or I think I have a OEM Husky 50 piston to use.

They kinda end up like a semi closed port, like the Jonsered 930. Do a bit of port work and a little bigger carb. Sounds like a runner to me.

And another thing, Husky 55 coils are basically the same thing as the Partner coils and can be used to replace a failing Ignitron ign

Electrolux litterly raped Partner of all there parts and designs.
 
Stock NOS oem Jred 590 cyl . They used 2 styles, the norm closed port and this one that looks modified closed port. But it is factory oem.

Scott has been selling aftermarket 5000 pistons for years now it seems.

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