Stihl ms261c bar 18” or 20”

[buttercup]

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Personalized my smurfs this way. Not as impressive as yours but people chuckle.

That's abusive.

 

[full chizel]

If you lose saws in the woods you shouldn’t be out there.

 

[Deleted member 149229]

That's abusive.

Why?

 

[MountainHigh]

Here’s what I did, what most people do. Three slices with a dremel cutoff wheel and open them up with a screw driver and pair of duckbill pliers. I run 16 inch .325, perfect combo. I had a 18" .325 on it and like the 16 much better.

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Thanks for posting.

I need to preserve the spark arrester so will have to focus on opening up the current muffler port.

I like the 261 c-m with 16"/.325 best as well.

 

[full chizel]

I have 18” .325 but gonna get a 20” too

 

[Dmunyon]

Yes you will definitely notice a difference. I waited till the saw was fully broken in. Make sure you remove the muffler if you do this, you don’t want any metal shavings going into the cylinder. Blow out the muffler real good with compressed air before reinstalling. My two go to saws are just like you, 461 and 261. You can’t beat that combo.

Nice , thank you . I’ll deff wait till it’s broken in first .

 

[Tex68w]

I have this coming from Gnarly Chain Saws in Canada. First ported 261 that they've done.