stihl quick release caps

[Grateful11]

I've got them on my 250 and sometimes they seem to just fall right into place and other times you really have to fiddle with them. I took some pics of the crud down in the holes, as I said I was going to do in another thread, but I got too close and they were hopelessly blurred. I'll try to get them this week. If I ever get over this crappy sickness I've picked up.
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[JimL]

When did you recieve this magazine?

 

[treeclimber165]

Originally posted by JimL
When did you recieve this magazine?

I've been getting it every month (if the mailman doesn't lose it) for almost 10 years. You can go to the NAA website and sign up to get it for free.
www.natlarb.com

 

[JimL]

lol ment the time of month, middle, beginning?

 

[Crofter]

If you put the snap caps in half a turn off from the proper location, the lugs are on top of instead of under the locking ledge. the loop will fold down and seem ok but it is only the friction of the o ring holding it in. I oiled my pantleg once befor I discovered the cause. If you have th o rings out to clean or replace make sure there is not a twist when reinstalled. It causes enough distorion that it may leak especially when cold.

Frank

 

[daveb]

Originally posted by JimL
You must have a huge leak to loose a tank of baroil!
Extra effort? Turn and click, pretty easy for most people?

JimL, at 19 yrs old you have all the answers, but you haven't heard all the questions. Something an old timer said to me once when I was running my mouth when I should have been listening.

 

[Grateful11]

We've been saying I was going to take some pictures so here you go. There was too many to attach so I setup webpage to post them on. Attachments don't seem to work with a Mac anyway. Feel free to comment on them. It's a alittle large so it may take time to load.
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Old and New Stihl Fill Caps

 

[Kneejerk Bombas]

One thing that struck me as I read this thread was a small detail in the recall notice. It stated that 9 people were severely burned by gas that leaked out of the tank.
The little bit of dirt that get's in is very bad, but I'm sure Stihl's main concern is saftey. The gas cap evolution has nothing to do with anything but saving on the liability of saw injuries.
In other words, the dirt in your saw tank seems minor to the child who can't recognize his father due to the burns from the failure of the previous cap's design.
Is the new cap safer? I don't know, but I bet Stihl does.

 

[bwalker]

The old caps IMO stunk too. The gasket on the oil tank would get pressed into the cap thus warping it and causing leakage.

 

[Grateful11]

Yackity, yack about the caps and I post pics on a website and all of sudden it's hush-hush. I thought there would at at least a be a comment on my foo-foo MS250. None of that crap was placed there by me I removed the caps a carefully as possible.
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<h1>Click here for the crap under the cap!</h1>

 

[glens]

The photos are of a very high quality.&nbsp; The page sure takes a while to load on a 33.6 modem line though.&nbsp; I think if you would specify the image sizes in your &lt;img&gt; tags, the page could start to lay out some time before the images all fully arrive.&nbsp; In that way the images could progressively display while being fetched instead of exploding into view all at once at the very last.

You don't have a clear shot of the inner workings of the cap itself.&nbsp; Don't the o-rings seal <i>inside</i> the inner (smaller) opening?&nbsp; I don't remember and don't have one to check.&nbsp; If they in fact do, then you've got nothing to worry about in any of those pictures, except maybe that it looks like you're using the larger diameter opening as a funnel on the oil tank.&nbsp; I'd try not to do that.

Glen

 

[treeclimber165]

Thank you for those pictures, G11. You captured exactly what I was trying to say about those caps. Unfortunately, some members here who have NEVER used a saw with these caps decided to disagree with no point of reference.

 

[geofore]

dust

I see lots of fine dust and no ribbons, are you sure you chain is sharp? If your chain cut bigger pieces instead of all that dust you would not need to carry an old dry paint brush to clean around the gas cap in the first place Did you see Husky tells you to rinse out your tanks and replace fuel filter once a month? I think they got complaints about their cap designs too. Ah for the good old days when the caps screwed on the top like a lawn mower cap and the saws were about as heavy as a mower

 

[glens]

Someone's angry about something again.

I may have forgotten to mention that I had an MS290 with those caps and over the course of about 10 gallons of fuel I never had a lick of trouble whatsoever with crap getting in or contents leaking out.&nbsp; I like the caps very much.&nbsp; I think they're a great design.

I'd read an older thread a while back where someone was b!tching about having their screw caps tightened with a scrench and how that ruins the seals.&nbsp; I'd been using mine to put a gentle snug on the caps on my 036 since day one and decided to try a hand-tighten-only on them.&nbsp; They seal just fine, and in fact, I found that I tighten them harder by hand than I do with the scrench.&nbsp; Go figure.

Glen

 

[Grateful11]

I guess I'm so used to this cable modem that I forget about really slow connections. I'll see what i can do about the image sizes. Sorry about that.

Glens I think you're probably right about nothing to worry about. I'll try to get a picture or 2 of the caps themselves.

Geofore, I cut lots of junk wood, old dead trees, blown over trees, whatever. If i can get decent heat out of it, I'll burn it. I try to make it a point not to just cut trees down for firewood, I'm not saying I won't but there's too many dead, down, or in the way trees here on the Dairy to choose from. Right now I'm cutting back the trees around the field edges. You can't get nice curls out of an Oak that been down for 5 or 6 years, like you can from a nice green tree. I don't care how sharp a chain is you're still going to get an amount of fine dust. I've been using saws since I was about 13 years old, so what's that 27 years. I haven't seen one yet that doesn't ever get some fine dust on it and in it. Maybe Stihl should put a disclaimer saying cut only green trees only with very sharp chains.
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[Kneejerk Bombas]

Brian said:
"Unfortunately, some members here who have NEVER used a saw with these caps decided to disagree with no point of reference."

Because this was a plural response, I checked to see who the two were. Only two disagreed, Glen and I.
So I been called a fraud. I'll attach proof that i indeed own a saw with these horrible caps.

Brian, can you attach a copy of multiple reciepts, showing the repair bills from fuel and oil contamination? Look at the picture I attached, see much crud in there?

 

[Grateful11]

Okay I fixed the images to a better size. If they still load large click refresh and they should get smaller, you can still get a bigger view by clicking individual pics.

I'm not going to get into this name calling thing:angel: but Mike that's the fuel end, I'm sure you already know that, notice that the fuel filler on mine shows very little crude either, actually yours shows a little more on the that end than mine. Maybe your chain is dull, as geofore said.

Maybe if I'd be more careful when filling up the oil I'd leave less oil residue for dust to cling to. my main concern is that of the Stihl's I've owned with regular caps, I've never had a problem crude getting into any of the tanks. I think a second O-Ring or wiper up top on these new caps would prevent trash from getting down in the recess to begin with.
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[Kneejerk Bombas]

Grateful,
how many fuel filters have you gone through? My saw is, uhh.., at least a year or two old... not one filter yet. I cut a lot of wood. More than...99% of saw owners, I bet.
Here's part a lot clearence we've been working on, the white eyes you see are about 15" and smaller, lined up for the whole tree chipper. Saw logs and fire wood removed.

 

[Kneejerk Bombas]

One more thing, if it's the oil you worry about, you would notice a drop in oil use first time you filled it up.

 

[Kneejerk Bombas]

there's a load of firewood, warm up the 026...(hehe)