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What's the best way to clean a spark plug that is fairly new and looks mechanically ok but is black? White spirits? I believe that caustic soda removes soot from stove windows, so that might work for spark plugs too?

I wasn't aware that a CRV could be retrofitted. I haven't found much info on retrofitting a valve here at the forum, and I would personally have thought that drilling a hole in a cylinder top not foreseen for it would be asking for trouble? Will the stresses be OK after installation of the CRV...

It makes a lot of sense what you are saying but the point for me was that the saw did not start, or only with great difficulty, so while working with all kinds of fixups (change of coil, carb, impulse tube, piston rings, etc, etc) I had to pull this 064 with no decomp valve many times. By the...

Hi guys, I own a 064 that constantly has had problems starting. I have been fiddling with it for a long time and I believe that I have been pulling the rope to try to start it a couple of hundred times. It does not have a decompression valve:( and I wonder whether it is the biggest Stihl...

80% of all savings world-wide is spent on covering the US deficit.... :laugh:

Don't forget to Anchorseal them asap....

I have been quartersawing big oak logs with an Alaskan. Works great but it's a lot of hard work. You may find a description of the approach in the book Chainsaw Lumbermaking by Will Malloff. Hard to get though, I paid 135$ for mine. As already said, don't quartersaw small logs (less than...

Guys, here's an update. I found that I can start the saw if I pour some gasoline directly into the carb. It will then run ok at high revs for as long as I want. Still hard to start though after switching it off, and I can't make it idle slow enough to prevent the chain from moving. When I try...

Andy, what is good and what is bad when it comes to a vacuum/pressure test? I would assume that a vacuum/pressure dropping to half of its value over 10 seconds is about as bad as you want it for a working saw. A vacuum/pressure dropping to half of its value over, say, 4-5 minutes, should be ok??

The valve goes in right after the pump to prevent the air from leaking backwards through the pump during the test period. I paid around 10$ for my gauge and I believe that it was at HF. It is similar to this one but not the same...

bigbadbob: I don't know the word "barb"? Do you mean the hose fitting? That one I glued into the alu with epoxy. KMB: I believe that I bought the gauge at Harbour Freight (during a duty trip to the US). It handles both over- and underpressure. I think that it is made for fuel pump testing...

Here are a few photos of my poor-man's kit. It's mostly made of cheap parts from Harbour Freight. The attachment plate is of alu with a brass fitting inserted with Araldite. I made an adapter both for the 064 and the 084. I can use it both for pressure and vacuum testing. Works great.

Var köper man carb cleaner? Hej grabbar, var köper man "carb cleaner" i Sverige och vad heter det på svenska? Biltema har vist inget. Hälsningar från en dansk i Sverige Tom

Here's my 0.02 $ to this avalanche post: -Heating with wood is CO2 neutral -In most cases, heating with wood polutes heavily due to the soot particles and other products that are emitted. It is important that combustion takes place at high temperatures to avoid pollution and that is often...

thanks for the hint, however I already did that with no improvement

Your house looks really nice. If it were in Sweden, we would take away the trees near the house to keep the house looking nice in the years to come;) Looks like a storm could pose problems...

Hi Guys, I'm sorry if this post is a little long but I am really frustrated over my 064:(. I bought the saw off ebay a couple of years ago. Contrary to some of you that have bought saws on ebay, this saw was in quite good condition. However, it was somewhat difficult to start. It had a Bing...

that sure is a lot of logs for a one-day job:hmm3grin2orange:

I have milled large oak logs and haven't seen that problem. I used an aux oiler too. Did your chain saw oiler work all right?

I second that. I just went through the same thing, I couldn't understand that I had to turn the H screw to a position only 1/2 turn from stop on my 084. However, without the filter I had to tune it almost 2 turns from stop. I had cleaned the filter beforehand but that wasn't enough. I bought a...