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My new to me Husky 350, got it off a yuppie mountain man bartender, living in the hills above the city. We met up at the summit just off 9 out of big basin...the agreed $25 price as it was known to be in need of a piston/cylinder (I'm not certain just yet) per the repair tag. He was asking $50 for it.
Funny, he told me someone called and wanted to pay $50, and said they would pay $60 for it, but he had agreed to sell it to me for $25 and he showed up where we were meeting, at a day hike area overlooking Monterey Bay above Santa Cruz, about 15 miles from Boulder.
Nice guy, works up on the summit as a bartender. He bought it for $160 2 years ago used, and didn't want to put $200 into it.
It looks like the ring is gone to me, but wanted to post some pics and get some opinions as I diagnose it.
It has spark.
I haven't tested putting some gas into the cylinder to see if it will fire.
I dumped the gas and filled it with known good 50:1.
Looks like it's been sitting in his barn for a bit...
I was reading these can actually be converted into a 346xpne top end fairly easily, so if I was going to get a cylinder/piston I would go that route, but probably won't do it right now.
I probably need to pull the cylinder and look at everything to see what can be cleaned up.
This is my first saw to take apart, so I'm not really too keen to getting things apart, but I see a gasket on the bottom, so I might be able to get some extra compression by getting rid of that?
I need to sort out the ring first, but a meteor piston/ring may cure this sick saw.
Gee, isn't the ring missing from here?
Here is some vertical scoring farther down the piston, but that shouldn't prevent it from running, should it?
You can see a full gallery of pics at this link.
Funny, he told me someone called and wanted to pay $50, and said they would pay $60 for it, but he had agreed to sell it to me for $25 and he showed up where we were meeting, at a day hike area overlooking Monterey Bay above Santa Cruz, about 15 miles from Boulder.
Nice guy, works up on the summit as a bartender. He bought it for $160 2 years ago used, and didn't want to put $200 into it.
It looks like the ring is gone to me, but wanted to post some pics and get some opinions as I diagnose it.
It has spark.
I haven't tested putting some gas into the cylinder to see if it will fire.
I dumped the gas and filled it with known good 50:1.
Looks like it's been sitting in his barn for a bit...
I was reading these can actually be converted into a 346xpne top end fairly easily, so if I was going to get a cylinder/piston I would go that route, but probably won't do it right now.
I probably need to pull the cylinder and look at everything to see what can be cleaned up.
This is my first saw to take apart, so I'm not really too keen to getting things apart, but I see a gasket on the bottom, so I might be able to get some extra compression by getting rid of that?
I need to sort out the ring first, but a meteor piston/ring may cure this sick saw.
Gee, isn't the ring missing from here?
Here is some vertical scoring farther down the piston, but that shouldn't prevent it from running, should it?
You can see a full gallery of pics at this link.