Fingers crossed that after rebuilding both my 87cc Stihls from the ground up last year w new bearings, seals, pistons, cylinder, etc, I've finally gotten the 045 Super working like it was meant to. So many other folks have had those saws run dependably for them, I couldn't believe I was having so much trouble successfully completing rebuilds and keeping them going. Between the two saws and being a novice at rebuilds, problems included bad initial seating of bearings and some bad seal installs, failing ignitions, stuck rings, and a few other hiccups that have kept them from sustained running to date. Got a new aftermarket Saegenspezi ignition for the 045 Super from Germany after being unsure whether the Foggysail-fixed Bosch was really working right. Put new Caber rings in to replace the ones that had gotten stuck, got a little more compression by doing just a high temp grey RTV gasket, and after some initial difficulty getting it started, got the thing screaming like a scalded cat. It's got the dual port muffler on it, too. For once it's working at the carb settings it should, proving that my carb rebuilds were fine the whole time and it was other problems keeping it from running right.
The only thing keeping the 056 Super from working right is the coil to chip wire keeps breaking in the older Saegenspezi ignition to the point I can't repair it anymore now as it's broken off flush with the coil now, so I'll likely just order another ignition. For the periods of time the wire held together, that saw was running pretty good. Will be such a relief to stop spending any more time on these, and spend my time on better things. Like getting my newly acquired mid-60's Mac 250 running as good as it can lol. Was glad someone called out my compression readings as not sounding right, because I've come to realize my new-ish Bosch tester is consistently reading at least 40 psi low. That definitely hasn't been helping my diagnostics.
The only thing keeping the 056 Super from working right is the coil to chip wire keeps breaking in the older Saegenspezi ignition to the point I can't repair it anymore now as it's broken off flush with the coil now, so I'll likely just order another ignition. For the periods of time the wire held together, that saw was running pretty good. Will be such a relief to stop spending any more time on these, and spend my time on better things. Like getting my newly acquired mid-60's Mac 250 running as good as it can lol. Was glad someone called out my compression readings as not sounding right, because I've come to realize my new-ish Bosch tester is consistently reading at least 40 psi low. That definitely hasn't been helping my diagnostics.