Well, the 181 showed up today. I was pleasantly surprized, it's in very good condition. I took her apart some, starter cover, clutch cover, top cover, air cleaner, just looking things over. Found one stripped out hole for the front cover screw, heli-coiled that. Everything else looked fine. Compression cold was just over 170psi, that made me feel pretty good.
She fired on the 3rd pull, idle was rich, couldn't really tell about the high speed screw as it was missing horribly and acted like it had a rev limiter on it.
I went to the wood pile, and really couldn't get her dialed in, just nothing large enough to put a good load on the engine. It was missing in the cut under heavy load, and just didn't want to rev no matter where I set the "H" speed screw. I'm thinking at this point the coil is toast, or short in the wiring someplace.
Anyhow, I cut down a Maple tree that I found in the back of my property that was is bad shape. It really wasn't big enough to load the saw much, but I could tell something wasn't right. It just didn't rev and missed under heavy load. Up to the shop and changed the plug, no better. I'm thinking now I got hosed again on Ebay, somebody started having major running issues with this saw them dumped it.
Well, the story has a good ending. I pulled the top cover and check the plug wire, all is well there. Then I checked the wire going to the remote coil beside the carb...BINGO! It's loose as a goose and slipped right off the terminal. Crimped her down good, back to the Maple tree and she flat ars ROCKS! Very impressive saw. I could easily bury the 20" bar cross-cutting and lock her down hard and she'd pull right thru without a whimper! Time for a bigger bar and bigger wood!......Cliff
