94SRUNNER
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Picked up a MS260 back in June. It's in great condition and only needed a light tuneup and cleaning. 
What's on your bench
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El Moobs
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Nice saw. It's pretty cool when you get a deal on an easy fix.
94SRUNNER
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Thanks! It's a great saw. I put a new bar on it along with a few other parts. I'm already looking for another one!
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I've got my 272xp on my bench after finally getting all the parts to put it back together. However, the crank I got is bent and I didn't notice until I had the cases assembled. So it's coming back apart and will have to wait until I get another crank. Then it's off to a certain farm boy for some grinding and squishing.
Toy4xchris
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After fixing and tuning a friend's poulan 2150 and a few tillers word got around at work that I am mechanically inclined. So now I have this farm boss sitting on my bench a local shop couldn't find anything wrong with. Runs good until it's hot then dies and and won't start. I'm thinking tank vent and or vapor lock. Gonna have to clean it up and run it to find out.
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If you think it's the tank vent it should be easy to check, just remove the one that's on it and put a piece of tubing in it's place..After fixing and tuning a friend's poulan 2150 and a few tillers word got around at work that I am mechanically inclined. So now I have this farm boss sitting on my bench a local shop couldn't find anything wrong with. Runs good until it's hot then dies and and won't start. I'm thinking tank vent and or vapor lock. Gonna have to clean it up and run it to find out.
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Definitive Dave
wanna-be saw racer, saw hoarder, parts whore
coil also might be suspect
This was Wednesday morning. 27yds.
Toy4xchris
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So pulled the muffler off to try and clean some oil and crap out off it and this is the Piston it's about 4-5 years old and from the word of my friend only ran factory Stihl oil in it
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Sometimes that crud from the muffler gets sucked back into the engine creating what you have..So pulled the muffler off to try and clean some oil and crap out off it and this is the Piston it's about 4-5 years old and from the word of my friend only ran factory Stihl oil in it
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Toy4xchris
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Figure that is the hot side of the cylinder also so more like to get wear. I wasn't trying to call out Stihl oil for anyone reading this I was just giving the information I was given.
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Toy4xchris
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Ya gotta give my buddy some options and see what he wants but am gonna lean towards just getting him running and let him blow the motor then do a 390 kit from Bailey's
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I don't think I would blame the oil for that one. I run mostly Stihl oil and never had anything like that. It could be the amount of oil you're using but I'd rather think it was too much air..
390 kits right now are cheaper than 290 kits from about a year ago..maybe not at Bailey's though.
SquareFile
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That's a shame.
SquareFile
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Why do you post here? Didn't you trash this site? Oh, that's right you just run your flappers to suck newbies in and screw them over. Coward!
