HOMELITE C-5
Yeh, I personally have two C-5's and now one of them needs a new crank-shaft, and while I'm at it I'm thinking about just replacing the piston and head also... The way I go about doing something like this is to find another junker from a local small engine shop that has just the engine with a few other parts missing, or the best way for you to go about it would probably be to get one off of ebay fairly cheap!!! I noticed that it looks like you have repainted your saw from the photo that you sent me exactly how I had repainted a few of my saws, by taping everything off and laying the paint to it, well it looks like this because you haven't quite finished it, because your decals and all of the lettering aren't on it yet... As far as your chain goes, I would reccomend a professional sharpening from your local dealer, and that will make all the difference in the world and it also looks like your running semi-chisel .404 instead of the full chisel, which I have found to make a whole whole whole lot of difference as far as how much of a bite the tooth will take in the wood and how fast it will cut, because the semi-chisel was designed to cut slow, for less kickback and it allows the saw to pull more under a load and if you decide to go with the full- chisel you'll know it because it will cut so much faster and lug the saw down a touch more... A few more people to go through for your parts are
[email protected] and there are some more that I will give you later tonight who ussually might just have a few older parts like these... As far as changing your pitch, you could get a sprocket off of a XL-12 which is the same size and everything as the C-Series, maybe just a touch thinner, and put it on your C-5, but if you do that to get the 3/8 pitch you also will have to find a bar that will work on your saw and also work for you chain and oiler, which will be extremely hard... Well I hope I didn't confuse you too much and that this will work out for you and if you do change your pitch and everything, be sure to let me know what bar and everything you used so I might be able to change over to it some day myself allthough I doubt I ever will, because the .404 last longer and is a whole lot stoughter chain over all and if you go to the full chisel it'll make all the difference in the world...
Greg