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Using my XP372 to cut up some big oak for the neighbor. The diameter ranges from 28 to well over 36" depending on how lobey it is. The kind of stuff where you have to gas up every 8-10 cuts. So I noticed a haze of smoke from the bar mid cut and it lingered after the cut. I cranked the oiler wide open and it still did it. It doesn't seem to be heating too bad, just enough to make the bar oil smoke. No blue or apparent wearing on the bar. With the oiler wide open I can evacuate well past 1/2 of the oil tank (hard to guesstimate but I'd say its at 1/4 full or below) to a tank of gas so I know it's oiling. There is not excessive leakage into the clutch area so it's all getting to the bar. Oil is summer weight specific and we are in the 60's right now.
Do I chock this up as normal? Go to a lighter oil to get more flow? Can I blow backwards through the oiler with a blow gun? Port the oil hole in the bar? Bar is OEM 24".
I need to get after my own oak pile and most of it is well into the 20's as well.
Do I chock this up as normal? Go to a lighter oil to get more flow? Can I blow backwards through the oiler with a blow gun? Port the oil hole in the bar? Bar is OEM 24".
I need to get after my own oak pile and most of it is well into the 20's as well.
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