If y'all can help with some or all of these questions, I'd be most appreciative.
1. The sprocket on my bar stopped moving and basically locked everything up in the middle of cutting wood. I took it apart and the only way I could get it to move again was by putting one of the teeth on the edge of my tailgate and using my weight to push down. It moved a little and I was able to loosen it up some but it never easily moved. Did I get a defective bar? The guys with me said that the bar sprocket should move easily with one finger.
2. When taking off the clutch cover, the chain break was engaged. I didn't know better at the time and forced it off. :newbie: So now I have both the clutch cover and chain break disassembled and I don't know how to compress the spring back in there. I've already tried forcing it in with my strength alone. Its going to require a different approach. Any ideas? Incidentally, I also lost the 'C' clip that holds the '3-prong' thing on the post. I heard it ting against something in my garage...its probably worth just getting a new one rather than driving myself nuts trying to find the tiny thing. Where do you recommend I get a new one?
(For any fellow newbs that may be wondering, you have to dis-engage the chain break before taking the cover off. The instruction book says that if the cover does not come off easily, to put everything back together and then engage/dis-engage the chain break again.)
3. What is meant by: "Immediately press and release the throttle when the engine starts. That will disengage the throttle latch."? What latch are they talking about? No matter what I do, I can't get the throttle to stay engaged without holding it in. In turn, that makes it hard to start because it konks out before I can get to the trigger to 'rev' it. I must be missing something here. Shouldn't the saw go to idle immediately when started?
4. After the saw is running, it won't run for long without me pulling the trigger every so often to sort of 'rev' it. Could that be due to needing to adjust the carb's idling (T) mixture?
5. What kind of grease gun do you use for the clutch drum needle bearing and the bar tip sprocket? The drawing of the one in the manual doesn't look like anything I've seen before.
1. The sprocket on my bar stopped moving and basically locked everything up in the middle of cutting wood. I took it apart and the only way I could get it to move again was by putting one of the teeth on the edge of my tailgate and using my weight to push down. It moved a little and I was able to loosen it up some but it never easily moved. Did I get a defective bar? The guys with me said that the bar sprocket should move easily with one finger.
2. When taking off the clutch cover, the chain break was engaged. I didn't know better at the time and forced it off. :newbie: So now I have both the clutch cover and chain break disassembled and I don't know how to compress the spring back in there. I've already tried forcing it in with my strength alone. Its going to require a different approach. Any ideas? Incidentally, I also lost the 'C' clip that holds the '3-prong' thing on the post. I heard it ting against something in my garage...its probably worth just getting a new one rather than driving myself nuts trying to find the tiny thing. Where do you recommend I get a new one?
(For any fellow newbs that may be wondering, you have to dis-engage the chain break before taking the cover off. The instruction book says that if the cover does not come off easily, to put everything back together and then engage/dis-engage the chain break again.)
3. What is meant by: "Immediately press and release the throttle when the engine starts. That will disengage the throttle latch."? What latch are they talking about? No matter what I do, I can't get the throttle to stay engaged without holding it in. In turn, that makes it hard to start because it konks out before I can get to the trigger to 'rev' it. I must be missing something here. Shouldn't the saw go to idle immediately when started?
4. After the saw is running, it won't run for long without me pulling the trigger every so often to sort of 'rev' it. Could that be due to needing to adjust the carb's idling (T) mixture?
5. What kind of grease gun do you use for the clutch drum needle bearing and the bar tip sprocket? The drawing of the one in the manual doesn't look like anything I've seen before.