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If I'm late to the party discussing this, sorry, I only heard about it this weekend. After a quick search I count closures in five states; AR, GA, TN, NE, and SC. I have heard the reason is to reduce costs and that they are discontinuing gas power for electric. I think chainsaws are...

Stevesr- Thanks Steve, that bridge has been crossed and recrossed. The old line has the kink, the new one is rotated to compliment the kink so that in theory anyway, the filter would lay flat in the tanks center with the filter pointing forward. In practice the kink has too much kink (for lack...

This is a 13mm piston pin saw but I don't recall mfg. year, it had a black pick-up hose in the tank and a plastic filter - no metal. I still have it saved as there was nothing wrong that warranted replacement, I put new OEM everything on the saw while it was apart. I will ask the local Stihl...

It's black. When the saw was acting up I pushed it down only to watch it raise right back back up. Reminded me of years past . . . Green rings a bell but I didn't know why, not on this saw. The black Stihl replacement was a perfect match for the old one, color and all - might oughta put it...

Bumping in the hopes someone familiar with the problem might reply.

Replaced all the fuel lines with new Stihl parts when building the saw. I have recently noticed the tune-up sounds like it needs tweeking over the course of a tank of gas. I scored two solid to the core red oak trees of 37' to 42" diameter that have sat just long enough there is almost no red...

I would offer that bark inclusion due to a bad limb angle was the culprit. As for a fix, remove any dead wood and make as smooth as possible the exposed bark edges. You may need to run a saw up and down the torn, jagged area to smooth the wound to remove places were rain can collect. While...

Ground is too soft for a dolly. My Frankencant needed a little hammer provided on-site hook put into the spike. Glad I left the off end long, it provided a handy place to hammer the spike into the rounds. The bark is so thick and gnarly the spike will pull out if not driven into the sap wood...

Necessity being the mother of butchery, I never said it was pretty.

Dave, I just finished inserting peavy genetics into my log cant. Replaced the hook with a piece of 1" water pipe and a smallblock Chevy fuel pump pushrod. Flattened and ground round one end of the pipe and drilled a hole to mount it on the cant handle. Drew a 20" radius on the bench top then...

Elevator Guy, that is just about exactly what I'm dealing with, a 115 to 120 year old red oak, solid to the core. Rocket Norton, think your peavy would work on a round from Elevator Guys log? I'm going to ask around to see if I can find one. River of Smoak, 69 last month. The soil is soft...

Have a 40" red oak log bucked into 16" rounds. I need to roll the rounds (round in name only, their shape not so much) less than 10' on uneven ground. My cant hook is not sized for rounds this size. With a hammer I can sometimes get the hook to dig in but it offers poor leveage and usually...

Cookies - It sounds like we are on the same page regarding the high side setting. I warmed the saw then checked that it'd four-stroke and went to work but I did not clear out the crankcase as you recommend. Cutting this oak log no doubt pushed the limit for heat buildup due to the duration of...

Pulled the muffler and sparkplug to do an inspection of my 044 after cutting a bunch of red oak firewood rounds. The log measures 41", using a 24" bar. This was the first hard work this saw has done since it was ported and compression increased. And it was worked hard. The cylinder and...

What searching I have done indicates the 046 and 044 use the same carb. Or they at least did at some point. Currently trying to scare up an oem carb for either saw to modify.

Posted this question yesterday in the chainsaw forum without success: Is there larger bore and/or venturied carb from another model Stihl saw that's a drop-in fit in an 044?

Is there a bolt-on, larger carb from another model Stihl saw that'd fit the 044?

From what I have seen in Stihl cylinders, the Nikasil plating (nickel chromium nitrate) used is no where near as hard as what I was involved with in back in 90"s NASCAR. Nothing short of a diamond hone would touch the stuff. I've had good luck (so far) with a non-descript Harbor Freight...

What you said: Always runs very rich. I thought it was a bit wonky that the diaphragm "plate" or whatever it's called would be allowed to contact one of the cup plugs. Took care to lay everything out in order as it came apart (to replace the check valve). It's all good tough, pop threw his...

Looks like it was wrong when it came apart, not knowing any better it went back the same . . . Could that be why the idle screw control is poor? No instructions and I bet it was assembled backwards back when the dealer was unable to get the thing to run correctly for my dad and he parked it...