tightened cylinder

[heffayinthebush]

hey chainsaw dudes, i've recently dismantled a 066 that tightened up on me a few weeks ago. typically it heated up on the exhast side of the cylinder and ceased the rings tight. now there was very little scoring but some baked on carbon in the sleeve. can i revive the cylinder with muriatic acid, as i have been advised, and if so how do i do it? or trash the works and pay through the nose for a new top end.

 

[ehp]

well this works great and i am sure i will get a ear full
first get a propane torch and some oven cleaner,like easy off
heat the jug up some where you have the alum. off the piston on your jug. now just heat it up to where it is not to hot like 1000degrees but to where it is just hotter than you want to hold on to it
put lots of oven cleaner on it and let it sit for 15 minutes now we have a flap wheel the size of the bore but i am sure if you use sand paper it will work
the oven cleaner will lossen up the crap on your jug and you just wipe and sand it off now if you really blew it to hell you will have to repeat this a couple times and is alot safer than the acid
i knopw it sounds like crap but Tony here does 5 or more saws a week that way beside me at the husky dealer
just take your time and alot of jugs that look like they are junk turn out quite good

 

[JimL]

wow 4 or 5 jugs a week

Im lucky if i get one a week.
usually 2-3 a month average..



i enjoy teardowns

 

[ehp]

hell i have seen 8 in a day here when it is cold , guys just burn them up in the cold
but you have to remember there are alot of saws here, the largest husky dealer in ontario and i think he has won for canada most years is just up the road , by largest i mine he has sold the most saws ,plus there are alot of dealers here , i have 3 stihl dealer's with in 15 miles of my house , 2 husky , and the rest of the saws but no big saw dolmar dealers here there is the makita dealers here but they mostly just sell the small saws so we aretrying to get a dealership here at hugh's place should know by midweek but one thing is forsure there list price is to high to sell here about $150 to high

 

[guff]

hey ehp...why do they burn up in the cold?...is it because they run lean and should be richened up?

 

[JimL]

nearest husky dealer from here is around 40 miles..

nearest stihl dealer other than ours is around 35 miles..

we sell alot of equipment around here, i can think of probably 20 logging businesses that use stihl. a few trimmers, sell to the county, state, city.

probably don't sell near the bigger saws you guys do though.......
we have only sold 2 088's, i bought one.

 

[ehp]

yep a screw driver is a wonderfull thing in the right hands
plus guys just donot watch there fuel for water
around here it use to be 066's stihl was the saw but now with the tree marking on your own land it seems to be 460 stihl's with mod mufflers . 372 and 385 's
the only trouble mostly for the 372 is breaking cranks, guys think they should be able to pry and jerk there heads off these saws and break the crank on the gear side
it seem up here now we donot get the dual port muffler on stihl's anymore ,i think you can still order one but we use to get them on the saw
i modified to 460 mufflers last week , the guy said they sounded like a sewing machine the way they came new
but i have to say it is more the smaller saw for hydro and crews like that , that time bomb the saws than the loggers , at least they seem to have a idea on what to do

 

[Fish]

I get lots of burned up Huskies here, I talk them out of repairing
them usually, but this is not timber country, but redneck
firewood country.