Eccentric
Mister Wizard
Hey Eccentric,
How are those C-5's running? got mine going about a month ago, put a new bar and chain on it and it has been running like a striped ape. This is also after my local Stihl dealer told me to drop it in a trash can or use it for parts.
Two run great. The third is in pieces, and is a donor. It has a PERFECT piston and cylinder, and still has many more parts to give to the noble cause of keeping the other two running!
Of the two runners, one is somewhat beat on the outside and does much of the work. It has cut a couple of cords of firewood so far, including doing a fair amount of ripping. It usualy wears a 21" Hardnose bar and .404 Oregon 27 chain (semi-chissel that is better for the dirty windfalls that I'm usualy cutting). Ballances perfectly with this B/C. Sometimes it wears an OLD 25" hard nose bar taken off of the Origional-EZ.
The other runner is the 'pretty one' (in my avatar). It's too pretty to beat up much, so it usualy stays on the shelf, or at most bucks wood at home. It usualy wears an 18" hardnose (what I got it with) and some old (but low-time) .404 Stihl round-chissel. It's also the stronger of the two runners (no doubt to having low hours).
All three have the discontinued Oregon rim drive clutch bells. Both of the runners just needed some small parts, cleaning up (pretty one had a measured 2 pounds of oily sawdust packed within!), new fuel lines, and carb kits to be runners. They're good workin' saws, but are damn HEAVY!!! I do most of my firewood cutting with the 031AV and the two XL12/SXL-AO saws, saving the C5's for the bigger stuff.
We should probably continue this conversation in a PM so as to not further hyjack this thread. I see that you do have an 038AV, so if you talk about it a bit here we will probably be OK!
P.S. I'll trade you a C5 clutch setup for your 038AV!!!!! :greenchainsaw: