I scratched my mom's kitchen table doing a plastic model car when I was probably 12 or 14. I still hear about it 20+ years later when we go visit.
Awfully nice to have good life insurance too!Exactly. Live life on the wild side
the good light makes it a lot easier for that crucial step
Went to buy a carburetor kit for my 306, came back with a Stihl 170 to work on. Starts on a prime but won't continue to run...non-adjustable carb also. I've got it soaking right now but I imagine he'll need a new carburetor to get it right. Can't even use an adjustable because there's no holes in the saw to stick screwdriver through if it was adjustable. If it was mine I might take out the cordless and make a hole to adjust it with...
I just noticed the air box on the Stihl 170 has adjustment holes in it, just not on the outside of the saw so I went ahead and ordered an adjustable carb for it, I figure I'll have to take the cylinder cover off of it to adjust the carb then just put it back on when I'm done. If the holes don't line up I'll just take the air filter holder off and bolt the carb on without it then adjust.I have an MS180c that had the non-adjustable carb, and the rebuild didn't act right... It would run ok for a few minutes after it got warmed up, but didn't clean out good if you let it sit and idle at all. It sounded like it was bogging and loosing power when first started on high idle, and it was intermittently while using it as well.
I am going to sell it to a friend/repeat customer, so I just didn't like it for him.
I have an MS250 that is missing a few parts and has a carbon-streaked piston, but it had a Zama carb with all three screws...
Took it off and rebuilt it. Drilled a few holes in the saw carb plastic housings to reach all three screws.
Sealed the air filter housing with silicone where the original carb plugged into it for pressure adjustment for air filter flow..... Cut some of this out with a dremel to clear the needles of the new Zama.
Then, I slightly tweaked the throttle arm hook to the side at a 7 o'clock instead of 6 o'clock. Filled the air impulse passage with JB weld and drilled the newly centered impulse hole in the carb body.
Results:
Runs great now. Tuned nice.
It can now sit and idle for 10 minutes and you can walk over, pick it up, and it revs ups snappy and strong... No stumbling or vaaaaaaroom. I am at 6,000 feet, so the one screw carbs are notorious for being rich.
Very nice case you've got friend!What do you do on a rainy Saturday afternoon? You get some more work done on you old tractor.
I started out with replacing the muffler. I wanted a polished stainless muffler on it. The one that was on it was not the correct muffler and looked horrible. It was way too short as well. The correct stainless muffler is around $140. Instead, I bought a stainless Thrush glasspack on clearance for $40! Add a stainless clamp and a stainless rain cap and she's lookin' purdy!
New fuel cap and radiator cap gaskets were next on the list. No more listening to the fuel cap dance around!
Next up was the shifter boot. It was all split and cracked up. That's a good place for water to get in the transmission if left out in the rain.
Next I replaced the riveted on brake pad for the belt drive drum brake. This is used to stop the transmission from spinning for shifting gears.
I then replaced the oil seal on the brake output shaft. Believe it or not, this old tractor has a form of disc brakes! However, they don't work too well with gear lube on them!
Next up was to drain and flush the transmission. This thing holds almost 11 gallons of gear lube. No, that wasn't a typo! 10 3/4 gallons to fill it up! The lube that was in it was who knows how old, perhaps 70! Not only that, but it was 3-4 gallons low. After draining it, I filled it with 10 gallons of kerosene and drove it around for 5-6 minutes. The bottom of the case, what I could see, was nice and clean bare paint. After draining that, I then poured in a gallon of fresh gear lube to flush the last of the kerosene out. I'm letting it drip for a while now and will then fill it up with fresh 85W-140 gear lube.
Not for today, but I've not yet installed the gauges I have for it. I suppose there's always something to be done on an old tractor like this, but I'm getting closer to where I want it.
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