Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[Logger nate]

Well I don't know what to say. I guess I got taken. Goes to show you how much an idiot I am and I don't know much about saws. I had asked about the plastic tank and he said it was original. So maybe he knew the true condition of the saw. No way to contact him. It was through CL and the address goes away once the ad is pulled. I guess I could drive back to his house, but he'd probably tell me to go frack myself. Really disappointed. This saw was suppose to open up the door to a little milling. Sounds like it's would be too expensive for me to fix. This was pretty much my limit on buying a bigger saw. I guess I'll just run it until it locks up and then try to sell the carcass as a parts saw.

Thanks everyone.

Your not an idiot, you just didn’t know. Might be worth the drive back, worst thing he can do is say no?

 

[svk]

That’s still a great saw if you put in a new piston and rings.

Try to respond to the email address that goes through the Craigslist interchange and see if he answers. Or if you have an address, do a reverse address search.

 

[Deleted member 150358]

Clean up the cylinder and put a meteor piston in it. Beats totally trashing the cylinder.

 

[JustJeff]

I'd fix it. New saw like that be over 1000 bucks.

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[Deleted member 117362]

Well I don't know what to say. I guess I got taken. Goes to show you how much an idiot I am and I don't know much about saws. I had asked about the plastic tank and he said it was original. So maybe he knew the true condition of the saw. No way to contact him. It was through CL and the address goes away once the ad is pulled. I guess I could drive back to his house, but he'd probably tell me to go frack myself. Really disappointed. This saw was suppose to open up the door to a little milling. Sounds like it's would be too expensive for me to fix. This was pretty much my limit on buying a bigger saw. I guess I'll just run it until it locks up and then try to sell the carcass as a parts saw.

Thanks everyone.

Stop, don't do that. Look at it as a positive, now you get to learn how to rebuild a saw. If cylinder can be cleaned up, new seals if it doesn't pass p/v check and a new piston as stated, you have a good running saw. If you think no one on here has been in same situation, you are wrong. I know I have done the same.

 

[Logger nate]

Stop, don't do that. Look at it as a positive, now you get to learn how to rebuild a saw. If cylinder can be cleaned up, new seals if it doesn't pass p/v check and a new piston as stated, you have a good running saw. If you think no one on here has been in same situation, you are wrong. I know I have done the same.

Yep, first saw I bought from AS classifieds, “rebuilt” 044

 

[Deleted member 117362]

Yep, first saw I bought from AS classifieds, “rebuilt” 044View attachment 850955

Rings may have been stuck. That's a pretty dry muffler also.

 

[svk]

Did a lot of putzing with project saws this evening. Saw a few things including nylon nut on this wild thing.

Lots of A041 bars. Won’t need to buy any for several years.

 

[MustangMike]

You did over pay, but you have a great saw (so don't be upset), with a little elbow work we can make that saw great again.

1st, looks to me like a 460 tank handle (flippy cap) on a 046 case (screw in oil cap). If it is, and it has an OEM DP muffler cover, that is one of the "real" magnums and is very desirable.

A Meteor piston (on ebay) is only about $40 and you can clean that cylinder and have a great running saw. Randy has a video on cleaning the cylinder, let me know if you need the link. (You can search google for it).

Did the saw run??? If the rings are free it would have, if they are not it would not. I wish you had pulled the muffler cover before buying, but not it is water under the bridge and we will move on, it is not a big deal!

We can walk you through everything, it is not that hard (460s are one of the easiest to work on).

 

[MustangMike]

I'm sorry, I missed your last comment. Since the saw started, the rings must be free. I had an 066 that I ran for quite a while with a scored piston. Does not look nice, but it ran just fine.

My advice, if you are going to run it, use a VG oil (like AMSOIL Saber) at 40:1 as you don't want it to get worse and let go or it will be a lot more work to fix.

But, plan to replace that piston and clean the cylinder sometime down the line.

Also, if the carb has limiters, pull them.

 

[LondonNeil]

Hands up if you've bought a pig of a saw..... Yep, we've all done it. Nothing to be ashamed of.

 

[MustangMike]

Unfortunately, it is a lesson in "not trusting". One of the nice things about these forums is no regular would sell someone a saw like that, or they would be shamed off of the site!

There are a lot of "fly by nighters" out there.

 

[svk]

Unfortunately, it is a lesson in "not trusting". One of the nice things about these forums is no regular would see someone a saw like that, or they would be shamed off of the site!

There are a lot of "fly by nighters" out there.

Or in the words of Ronald Reagan, “trust but verify!”

I’ll always ask for piston shot unless the saw is such a screaming deal that I could put in a new p+c and still be able to sell for a profit.

 

[chipper1]

As was already said, it's not the end of the world, but the beginning if you learn from the mistake.
When I bought my first 70cc saw I thought it needed a carb cleaning because it wouldn't stay running well, it ended up looking like yours . So being the mechanically minded guy I was I bought a cylinder kit from little red barn, I had to cut the plastic because the decompression valve was in the wrong spot (Chinese crap , but now I know), then it was running great, at least for the first half tank, then it ran just like it did in the beginning . Can you guess why, if you guessed because it looked just like it did when I pulled the muffler the first time, you're right . Yes I toasted the new cylinder because the saw had an air leak. Now to the positive side, that was saw buying 303 as I had already bought my first real husky a little 142, which I soon found out was nothing more than a poulan in an orange wrapper , then a 346 (my avatar), then the 575 . Second I learned that 2 strokes are not the same as 4 strokes so that was 2 strokes 101, yes these life lessons cost a bit, but I've heard it said and said many times myself, the lessons in life that cost us the most are those we tend not to forget.

Personally I would not run the saw, not one bit. If you do you risk damaging they cylinder and you don't want to add another cost, as it is they cylinder should clean up.
What part of IL are you in.

 

[chipper1]

Or in the words of Ronald Reagan, “trust but verify!”

He may have well have said, or get paid, he signed one of the worse bills ever giving the drug companies free rein to poison the country without any backlash .

 

[svk]

He may have well have said, or get paid, he signed one of the worse bills ever giving the drug companies free rein to poison the country without any backlash .

Overall he did a number of good things for the country. Plus he was a real man.

 

[Deleted member 117362]

Personally I would not run the saw, not one bit. If you do you risk damaging they cylinder and you don't want to add another cost, as it is they cylinder should clean up.
What part of IL are you in.

+1 on that!

 

[husqvarna257]

Well in my big hurry yesterday to fill up the car port tent with wood I just split all day wondering why the splitter was making noise. I thought the muffler cover was rattling like heck and I wished I had stopped sooner. The nut holding the pump to the motor bracket had backed off so the lovejoy couplers got beat up. the rubber spider was trashed in a few spots. So now I am off to get a gear puller to take the coupler off the motor side, I used pb blast and had it running out but the coupler wants to stay. Now I will fix it and loctite the nuts to the mounting bracket. It was still splitting away when I finally shut it down.

 

[Lionsfan]

Overall he did a number of good things for the country. Plus he was a real man.
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He'd mop the floor up with those other two bozo's if he was running against them in November.

 

[svk]

He'd mop the floor up with those other two bozo's if he was running against them in November.

He was probably one of the most likeable presidents in the history of the country.