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I might not be an expert on small 2 stroke engines but what I am proficient in, due to the nature of my engineering business is machines, engines (big engines), lubricity, metallurgy, understanding how materials act and react together. What I would say is that generally I would follow the 2...

Thanks for all the information. I will go into my local Husqvarna shop and see what they have on offer. I will look out for some of the above products.

Hi thanks for your reply. Yes on the inept trimming, just after we moved in here the neighbour at the back hacked away most of it's branches which overhung his garden, guy was using a joinery saw and let a lot of the branches tear and snap through when they came down. Big mess. I took a couple...

Thanks for the reply but at £45 for 1 litre I think I will stay well clear of it! It appears it is not readily available here in the Britain. £43 will buy me 37 litres of petrol! We can buy ethanol free petrol in Britain (well you can around where I stay) so I don't need to worry much about...

Quick question. I have this tree at the bottom of my garden that a conifer has been allowed to grow up through. It is a bit of a sorry state often only producing random branches of leaves in the summer. I cut back branches that were doing nothing last year and removed some scraggly bits. I also...

Hi guys, I have a couple of 254 XP's and a brand new 435 that I use for keeping the homefires burning and some occasional heavy duty farm use. I always used to mix oil as per the mixer bottle lines (50:1 I think) but read something a week or so ago that people are running higher a % of oil, I...

Well, that's the first of the two running. Runs very well, not had a major logging session yet but cut a fair bit of wood with it and very happy. I will start on the second saw after Easter. Thanks for all the input.

Right, I took the sprocket off my other 254 and tried to fit it, no dice, the part on the drum which the sprocket slips over is a different size, so I took the whole drum assembly and sprocket over and all worked well. Made a small dent on my pile of logs to be processed into firewood. Very...

Thanks for the info. Well luckily what I have bought it was you recommend so I will stick with it and order up another .325 - 7 if and when I get the second 254 going. This also means I have a compatible chain with my Homelite.

Thanks. Looking at it the more square recoil does look more dated than the more modern recoil with the angled pull-cord .

I have these 2 254XP's - I have just got one going after 12 years since I got them, and god only knows how long they sat before I got them. I have two and I am missing some parts, some parts look like they are the same on both and I have tried them on each saw and they fit but some parts are...

Hi guys, some of you may have seen my thread about getting my husky 254XP up and running, well it runs now so I bought a bar and chain, just ordered up a Ozaki one to get it all going, I had never heard of them, might be OK don't know. I am going to head out to my local shop to get a couple...

OK guys it looks like I have got it going. Perseverance! After getting it to go those last few times it has now started 3 days running 24hrs apart as it should. Could I be as lucky as to have managed to draw enough fuel through the carb to help un-gum it a bit? So pretty pleased about that, I...

Hi guys, thanks for the latest posts. Carb is an HDA35B. How do you calibrate the lever, with the pin end held down press the other end down with a flat object to bend it slightly? I don't have it in pieces so I am just trying to remember what I saw. If I took that side apart again would I...

AH now we are getting somewhere - I didn't set any heights! I changed gaskets on both sides and the diaphragm, the little mesh filter, the needle, the little arm and the spring. I just screwed it all back together at that. I will get the carb code from it when I am at my workshop. Thanks for...

Any comments or words of wisdom?

Thanks, I have posted over there. Please all see my post there and ignore this one. Thanks.

-Copied here as advised this is best place on forum for this. - Hi all, new to the forum today, long time lurker. Hope this will be another forum I frequent to learn and hopefully help others. I got a couple of 254XPG's back in 2004, they have been sat in the garage since last month when I...

Hi all, new to the forum today, long time lurker. Hope this will be another forum I frequent to learn and hopefully help others. I got a couple of 254XPG's back in 2004, they have been sat in the garage since last month when I finally decided I wanted to get them up and running. I have another...