Got a super nice Poulan S6000 last week. It was super dirty but underneath I knew a gem was just waiting to come out.
The saw was a low hour saw and had the original 19" bar and Poulan branded chain still with it. Don't ask me why someone would want to lug this thing around with a 19" bar but that's what it had on it. These 6000 S6000/Dolmar 152, 153's are far and away from being the strongest 6 cube saw around but a 19" :msp_wink:
Long story short, I screwed it up right off the bat. The wire from the ign to the switch had all the insulation just crumbling off of it so in trying to remove the flywheel to fix the wire I ended up breaking the end of the crank off since I used a conventional puller on it. I never gave it a look to see the end of the crank was drilled the length of the threaded area of the crank. :censored:
I also found out something about this S6000. I thought the 6000 was a Dolmar 152 and a S6000 was a Dolmar 153. I was right but wrong at the same time. The S6000 is marked 152 on the serial # pad but it is a 153 all day long except one thing. It still used that damn 152 crank with the huge PTO side on it so the smallest sprocket you can use on it is a .404 X 8 or a 3/8's X 8. There is no rim drive available to fit this style crank.
This also makes me wonder about the guys with 152's that have a 153 style rear handle. They say there a "late" 152 but I wonder if there not like this S6000 and are actually a 153 with a 152 style crank.
This S6000 has all the makings of a 153. It has the 153 style tank and rear handle, the 153 RH crank case half along with the external 153 oiler, worm gear, and recoil housing.
Was the late 152 actually a early 153? I cannot find any IPLs to support either way, a late 152 or a early 153.
I got lucky and found a Dolmar 144 crank on Ebay and thanks to Lee H he found that it is a exact match to the 152 crank that I needed, so I snatched it up. I also found some NOS gaskets and a flywheel side seal for it. I found a aftermarket PTO side seal that worked perfectly.
I got it all tore down last week and got all the parts cleaned up while waiting for the parts to arrive. I got some time yesterday to put it together. Pretty straight foreword rebuild and I'll post some pictures as it went back together. Turned out to be probably the nicest S6000 around and is now in perfect good as it left the factory condition and thanks a lot to Dave for helping me out in getting to own it.
Here it is as arrived.
Here is the "OH CRAP" mess up on the crankshaft
The saw was a low hour saw and had the original 19" bar and Poulan branded chain still with it. Don't ask me why someone would want to lug this thing around with a 19" bar but that's what it had on it. These 6000 S6000/Dolmar 152, 153's are far and away from being the strongest 6 cube saw around but a 19" :msp_wink:
Long story short, I screwed it up right off the bat. The wire from the ign to the switch had all the insulation just crumbling off of it so in trying to remove the flywheel to fix the wire I ended up breaking the end of the crank off since I used a conventional puller on it. I never gave it a look to see the end of the crank was drilled the length of the threaded area of the crank. :censored:
I also found out something about this S6000. I thought the 6000 was a Dolmar 152 and a S6000 was a Dolmar 153. I was right but wrong at the same time. The S6000 is marked 152 on the serial # pad but it is a 153 all day long except one thing. It still used that damn 152 crank with the huge PTO side on it so the smallest sprocket you can use on it is a .404 X 8 or a 3/8's X 8. There is no rim drive available to fit this style crank.
This also makes me wonder about the guys with 152's that have a 153 style rear handle. They say there a "late" 152 but I wonder if there not like this S6000 and are actually a 153 with a 152 style crank.
This S6000 has all the makings of a 153. It has the 153 style tank and rear handle, the 153 RH crank case half along with the external 153 oiler, worm gear, and recoil housing.
Was the late 152 actually a early 153? I cannot find any IPLs to support either way, a late 152 or a early 153.
I got lucky and found a Dolmar 144 crank on Ebay and thanks to Lee H he found that it is a exact match to the 152 crank that I needed, so I snatched it up. I also found some NOS gaskets and a flywheel side seal for it. I found a aftermarket PTO side seal that worked perfectly.
I got it all tore down last week and got all the parts cleaned up while waiting for the parts to arrive. I got some time yesterday to put it together. Pretty straight foreword rebuild and I'll post some pictures as it went back together. Turned out to be probably the nicest S6000 around and is now in perfect good as it left the factory condition and thanks a lot to Dave for helping me out in getting to own it.
Here it is as arrived.
Here is the "OH CRAP" mess up on the crankshaft
