tickhound93
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Some of you may remember one of my very first posts, chronicling the misadventures of a farmertec engine for an ms250, and all the troubles I had with it, and definitive Dave's problems with supplying these engines. After buying a fair amount of stuff from Dave, he informed me that new crank pans for these engines had been made and he asked if I would try one out and see his they worked, if they were any better or still unserviceable.
About a week ago my parts box showed up right from Ohio, and included were 2 ms250 engines and new crank pans
As you can see the casting isn't that great, but a little work with a dremel I had it cleaned up enough to where I was confident it was serviceable. I assembled the engine with the new crank pan, and there was to play in the crankshaft as there was before.
Now that I had a runnable engine, all I needed to do was come up with a test saw. Scrounging through my tote of 1123 series saw parts, I found a broken handle assembly, a really nasty ugly recoil, an equally nasty tank, a banged up clutch cover, and assorted other bits.
Being as my little brother is home from college, I put him to work with brushes, some purple power and all my mast parts. All of these parts are either broken in some way, or were too ugly to put on saws that I sold, they were the reject parts.
After the parts were cleaned, I started assembly, robbing bolts, nuts and other hardware from all my other totes.
Being this is a Chinese engine, I saw fit to install chinas finest fuel line, pickup body, impulse line, a lazer spark plug, and a no name knockoff carb. Being that the handle assembly was cracked, I broke out the trusty soldering iron and made an attempt at welding the crack, its ugly but it works. After final assembly, I had an ugly saw that u had little faith in. But after 5 pulls... Little cooter came to life.
He still has yo prove himself, but after 5 test cuts he is still ticking, whereas the first Chinese engine I tried didn't survive long enough to even idle.
After all this, I am proud to introduce to AS, my ugly little saw that is quickly becoming my favorite. Ladies and gentleman, I introduce to you the little saw that could, Cooter
Thanks to Dave for letting me test this engine, and I am still looking for another saw to become cooters brother! I have completely exhausted my 1123 parts to bring Cooter to life.
About a week ago my parts box showed up right from Ohio, and included were 2 ms250 engines and new crank pans
As you can see the casting isn't that great, but a little work with a dremel I had it cleaned up enough to where I was confident it was serviceable. I assembled the engine with the new crank pan, and there was to play in the crankshaft as there was before.
Now that I had a runnable engine, all I needed to do was come up with a test saw. Scrounging through my tote of 1123 series saw parts, I found a broken handle assembly, a really nasty ugly recoil, an equally nasty tank, a banged up clutch cover, and assorted other bits.
Being as my little brother is home from college, I put him to work with brushes, some purple power and all my mast parts. All of these parts are either broken in some way, or were too ugly to put on saws that I sold, they were the reject parts.
After the parts were cleaned, I started assembly, robbing bolts, nuts and other hardware from all my other totes.
Being this is a Chinese engine, I saw fit to install chinas finest fuel line, pickup body, impulse line, a lazer spark plug, and a no name knockoff carb. Being that the handle assembly was cracked, I broke out the trusty soldering iron and made an attempt at welding the crack, its ugly but it works. After final assembly, I had an ugly saw that u had little faith in. But after 5 pulls... Little cooter came to life.
He still has yo prove himself, but after 5 test cuts he is still ticking, whereas the first Chinese engine I tried didn't survive long enough to even idle.
After all this, I am proud to introduce to AS, my ugly little saw that is quickly becoming my favorite. Ladies and gentleman, I introduce to you the little saw that could, Cooter
Thanks to Dave for letting me test this engine, and I am still looking for another saw to become cooters brother! I have completely exhausted my 1123 parts to bring Cooter to life.
