Do you remember this picture?
This happened when I used a plastic piston stop on my MS180 and tried to remove the flywheel nut. So I swore that I'd never use a piston stop again and would always use rope in the cylinder.
Tonight my Dad brought his MS180 over. A different saw than before. It wasn't hardly oiling at all. I wanted to look at the drive spring behind the clutch. So I put rope in the cylinder and used a scrench to turn the clutch. Here is the result.
Needless to say, I'm not too impressed at this point. Am I doing something wrong here? In the future on these little saws, I think I'll use an impact to take the flywheel nut off. Then after the flywheel's remove, I'll use the impact to remove the clutch and just let the piston turn over. Obviously the piston and cylinder are both too weak to take the torque required for disassembly. You have to take the flywheel off before the clutch or you'll take the weak little keyway out of the flywheel. Yes, that happen on my saw as well. Give me a pro saw already! If this thing just wasn't so light.
If I'm using poor technique, point it out. I'm tired of this.
Almost forgot. The oiler is still broke. I've never messed with the oiler on one of these. What do I look for?
Anyone got a MS180/018 crankshaft? 170 will not work.
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