pioneerguy600 :
That's a tip to write down. Thanks again.
That's really amazing chainsaw, did you rebuilt it from scraps, or it was mostly well preserved when you layed down your hands on it, or it is a new old stock piece chainsaw? Around here is rare to see some older date 'saws, other than Stihl and Husqvarna, then some Alpina, a few Dolmars. But sometimes, also some Jonsered, and very rarely McCulloch, Puolan, Partner, or Pioneer (at least from when I started looking around). And 'saws I've seen, are usually on the advertisements - almost half of the 'saws on advertisement are used ones, imported from Germany, Austria or Switzerland, and the rest of the 'saws is from regular people who are selling old ones so they could buy a new ones.
89HD :
That's one great chainsaw you got there. Good luck with repairing and restoring it. I'm in the process of repairing of a Pioneer P26 with electronic switch, and I think I'm making some progress.
Pioneer P26 -cleaned exterior
Yesterday, we flushed the bubbled paint out, of the fuel tank and it was a real to be or not to be situation. There was also some wood varnish inside, probably my neighbour, being a carpenter, mistook can with it for can with fuel+oil mix, so like it would be shown later that thing mummified the fuel tank and the filter and I'm thinking that also stopped gasses from mixture from evaporating right into the carburetor, so that could have stopped its deteriorating, and the carburetor should/could be in a decent condition.
Firstly I put screw bolts, nuts, and also some nails with fuel/oil mix into the fuel tank, and then I started shaking the 'saw, and suddenly the ratling sound stopped. I looked inside and nuts ,screw bolts and nails were holding all around the walls in the tank. Oh, boy!!!
Then my father and brother jumped in, took it from there, because my arms started to becoming numb from all that shaking of the 'saw. We put some chain (regular, not the one for chainsaws) in the tank, and then they started shaking the 'saw, alternately. Good thing is that almost all of the bubbled paint got off, and all of the wood varnish got off, but though all of the screw bolts, nuts and almost all nails got off of the tank, one nail left in there. We tried to get it out, but without luck. I have counted screw bolts, nuts and nails, a few times before putting it in the tank, and afterwards, and it looks like he is MIA. I hope he will appear sooner or later without making any damage.
I cleaned the filter off of wood varnish, put some little rubber ring on its base after cleaning it of the old one, checked all the gaskets between the cylinder carburetor mount and carburetor -they were in pretty good condition so I assembled fuel line and filter, and then and carburetor. Checked again for the spark, poured some oil for chain and some fuel/oil mix (40:1) in it, and then started pulling the rope easily at first, even so it coughed a little, so I pulled it harder and it started right of, I let go of throttle, the 'saw went off. I did it a few more times and it ended same way. I suspect it's bad adjusted carburetor or I attached throttle to a wrong hole on the throttle shaft and lever. Also I have to ask how to adjust carburetor with only L screw on it, marked on the 'saws exterior? It's a Tillotson brand.
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