dingeryote
Blueberry Baron
Just thinking here.
Pull the clutch drum, check the bearing, and shoes. Get all the drek and gorp out, and take a close look around.
If the brake is half engaged you'll see it right off.
The German Carlton Bars are 10X the bar any Oregon floppy trash ever was, and I'll put 'em up there with the Stihl ES.
I wish Bailys had more of them, and Oregon didn't screw us over by killing off Carlton.
The only problem is the clear finish getting into the oil passages and chain groove, and then the factory leaving the #### in there.
If ya grind down one of those little orange Stihl screwdrivers a bit, then heat it up and bend a .250 long 90 into the tip, they make a nifty groove scraper, that wont get loaded up like sandpaper does.
If you can move the chain by hand with the thing not running, it's not the brake or the chain hanging up in gorp IMO.
Ya got other issues.
Stay safe!
Dingeryote
Pull the clutch drum, check the bearing, and shoes. Get all the drek and gorp out, and take a close look around.
If the brake is half engaged you'll see it right off.
The German Carlton Bars are 10X the bar any Oregon floppy trash ever was, and I'll put 'em up there with the Stihl ES.
I wish Bailys had more of them, and Oregon didn't screw us over by killing off Carlton.
The only problem is the clear finish getting into the oil passages and chain groove, and then the factory leaving the #### in there.
If ya grind down one of those little orange Stihl screwdrivers a bit, then heat it up and bend a .250 long 90 into the tip, they make a nifty groove scraper, that wont get loaded up like sandpaper does.
If you can move the chain by hand with the thing not running, it's not the brake or the chain hanging up in gorp IMO.
Ya got other issues.
Stay safe!
Dingeryote