kiwiguy
ArboristSite Member
I'm half way through resurrecting a 1983 266se that I was given for free. It had a broken piston ring and was deemed by the farm it was on to therefore be a write-off.
It had a non-working chain brake (now fixed) and a small crack in the top shroud, but the p & c don't look too bad, other than the broken ring. I've just serviced the carby and got the saw all cleaned up and waiting for a few other new bits to arrive (gaskets, starter rope, felling dog, bar plates etc) before putting the whole thing back together.
While cleaning it, I noticed that the spark plug lead looks like it's just pushed into the receptacle on the coil (2-piece set up). The plug lead has been stripped back and there are a few strands of the core wires poking out, and that arrangement is inserted straight into the coil.
Question: is this how it's supposed to be? Is it meant to me more properly/permanantly attached via a clip or something?
Cheers!
ps hopefully this is self-explanatory, but I could post a pic if it helps.
It had a non-working chain brake (now fixed) and a small crack in the top shroud, but the p & c don't look too bad, other than the broken ring. I've just serviced the carby and got the saw all cleaned up and waiting for a few other new bits to arrive (gaskets, starter rope, felling dog, bar plates etc) before putting the whole thing back together.
While cleaning it, I noticed that the spark plug lead looks like it's just pushed into the receptacle on the coil (2-piece set up). The plug lead has been stripped back and there are a few strands of the core wires poking out, and that arrangement is inserted straight into the coil.
Question: is this how it's supposed to be? Is it meant to me more properly/permanantly attached via a clip or something?
Cheers!
ps hopefully this is self-explanatory, but I could post a pic if it helps.