Welder56
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Hey everybody. New member here. My name is Colin, I live in Nova Scotia Canada. I have been creeping this forum for awhile now but finally decided to post something. I'm a red-seal welder by trade. I work in a mechanical shop (mechanics, welders, machinists, bodymen).
OK enough about me. I've been working on a stihl 044. It's an older one so it has the 10mm wrist pin. It was made in west Germany and I bought it for 80 bucks with a blown piston. Just ordered a meteor piston and cylinder ( would have loved to save the cylinder but it was just scored to bad to save). I plan on porting the cylinder once I receive it. I did a compression test with the piston the way it was and it was 100 psi. I think it was run lean. I forgot to do a vacuum test before I took it apart so I'm praying it's not the crank gasket.
It had a spark problem also. I replaced the old spark plug. Tested with multimeter and figured it was just the HT lead and not the coil ( interesting enough the old coil is made by ducati energy ). Now I'm getting perfect spark and testing perfect.
Other than that I have just been cleaning all the metal and plastic pieces as I have been working on it. I will post pictures the next time I'm working on it. and I welcome all advice as their is a lot of really great threads on this forum! I'm happy to have found this great site
OK enough about me. I've been working on a stihl 044. It's an older one so it has the 10mm wrist pin. It was made in west Germany and I bought it for 80 bucks with a blown piston. Just ordered a meteor piston and cylinder ( would have loved to save the cylinder but it was just scored to bad to save). I plan on porting the cylinder once I receive it. I did a compression test with the piston the way it was and it was 100 psi. I think it was run lean. I forgot to do a vacuum test before I took it apart so I'm praying it's not the crank gasket.
It had a spark problem also. I replaced the old spark plug. Tested with multimeter and figured it was just the HT lead and not the coil ( interesting enough the old coil is made by ducati energy ). Now I'm getting perfect spark and testing perfect.
Other than that I have just been cleaning all the metal and plastic pieces as I have been working on it. I will post pictures the next time I'm working on it. and I welcome all advice as their is a lot of really great threads on this forum! I'm happy to have found this great site