Well I added another saw to the collection today. I took 2 Stihl saws that I repaired back to a local shop to just drop them off and was in a bit of a hurry but the owner was serving a customer and signaled to me to wait a minute before leaving. Had to wait about 10 min as the customer was long winded but finally packed it in after describing the problem with the pole trimmer in every aspect of operation in all positions. Shop owner says I`ve got something here you might be interested in and heads out back where he gets down on his knees and reaches back under a pile of saws,trimmers, lawn mowers and other gas engined gear and pulls out a chainsaw. Well she`s a Stihl of some kind and a dirtier saw would be hard to imagine. Only the Skil chainsaw he gave a month or so back was this dirty.
He says this saw is seized and the owner called after a year and says dump it its not worth fixing. Knowing you he says ,you`ll probably beat the piston out add a set of rings and have it runnin by the weekend so here ya go. I look it over quickly and make out with a little rubbing a 034 label on the very dirty top cover,its got a nearly new Stihl rollomatic E bar and new chain sticking out through the dirt encrusted saw casing.So I thank him and take my money and the saw as he hollers let me know how it goes and if you get it runnin.
Get back home in the shop and take the saw in and the guys say where you get that thing etc,etc,snickers and guffaws . I take it to the bench and chisel the guck off around the bar nuts ,remove the bar and chain,sweet nearly new. Put the saw in the dishwasher and set the pre heat for 100 F and let er go for an hour. Take it out and it is some what cleaner, no broken pieces , no bad scratches and only a few paint chips showing. Now to get the pine gum off I put it in the gun wash cabinet with varsol as the solvent and let it run for 30 mins. Now that's better, the whole outside is quite clean and there is no damaged parts.
Now I can take this apart to see whats on the inside,I pull on the recoil handle and it turns a little then binds but this is a good thing,right.Take out the four cover screws and try to pry the cover off as it seems stuck somehow.It breaks free with some effort and when removed the recoil and flywheel and cavity around the flywheel is packed with something like fine mud mixed with sticky black goo.Never saw this stuff before but with some effort I chisel it out and the flywheel turns with compression.After a half hour cleanup around the flywheel,recoilrotor and the coil,replaced the flywheel and recoil and with new mixed gas in the tank and a squirt in the carb,2 pulls and it fires ,choke on ,one pull fires,push in choke,2 pulls and away it goes.Run it for a min or so and just adjust the low needle a 1/4 turn out and it runs at idle and WOT like it was used every day,no issues at all. What the ell was that mess in around the flywheel,guess I will never know, now what do I tell the shop owner,the truth as always.
Pioneerguy600