So last Fri I had some time and decided to see what was what with this rig. First this not a restoration or rebuild...this is a get er' goin' thing. So the very first repair had to be the recoil as I could not tell any thing until this was fixed. So I took it apart and of course found a broken spring....put the heat to it and bent a new end on the spring. The truely cool thing about this recoil is the outer piece holds the spring and the inner piece holds the pulley, rope and intake screen. So in order to load the spring in the recoil you simply engage the spring end on the pulley pin, slip the whole thing together and rotate the outer housing whatever number of half turns it takes to get good spring tension and then install the two bolts. This is the cleverest recoil I have ever seen. I've seen quite a few...my first saw being a 1953 Lombard...a yr older than me!!
This is shown in pic 028!
The next pic is of the chain adjuster...it's in the clutch cover and very easy to get to.
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Then there is the "kill" switch..this is a momentary switch used to kill the motor and automatically returns to run when released. How many times have you pulled and pulled only to find you still have the switch "off"???
Pic # 027
I love the ex exit from th muffler!!!
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Just a side shot
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This saw had not been started since before we went to lead free gas. Once the recoil was fixed so I could tell she had fire, I pulled and replaced the fuel filter ( Very Bad) fueled her up and in 7-8 pulls she started right up and went right to idle happily. I did not remove or kit the carb...fuel lines passed a pressure test so I took it up to a friend of mines that has quite a bit of wood around and put her right into some dry 16" spruce...which she handled fine except running 50:1 ultra at WOT cutting cookies set the muffler afire!!! I cleaned the muffler up today and blew a huge amount of white buildup out of the muffler. For those of you who are not from the leaded fuel era...white buildup (especially in the tail pipe) was a way to tell the tune of your engine...white exhaust being very good, black exhaust meaning to rich. This saw is running perfact today ...no carb rebuild, fuel line, seals, or any of the stuff we do to every saw we get our hands on. I am very happy with this saw, it being the grandfather of the famous 621 and is the same bore, stroke and HP rating. It would seem these were very forward thinking and yet easily fixable in the field.
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