parrisw
Tree Freak
Ya for the most part I have pretty good luck, however it doesn't always happen, espicially when you build a saw from a basket case.
372XP Rebuild and mod.
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Ya for the most part I have pretty good luck, however it doesn't always happen, espicially when you build a saw from a basket case.
parrisw
Tree Freak
Nice, I wouldn't doubt it, mine has 2* more ex too, it's at 98.
Trx250r180
Saw polisher
do you cut the bottom of the cylinder sleeve off by the transfers ? it didnt look removed in one of the pictures
I've went through 3 gauges in the past year so I've give up on compression gauges. I haven't run it with a 32" buried in hardwood yet to see how it acts. It may need the compression lowered a little for working like that.
parrisw
Tree Freak
Yes. Just where the transfers are though, not completely around the cylinder.
komatsuvarna
Arboristsite MVP
Yeah I'd say so Mike! Mine just had ~.020 cut from it and squish at .024. Its at 175 with 1 tank through it. I really didn't want it super high though. I got lots and lots of work for this saw. I like it where it is for my intended use :msp_thumbup:.
parrisw
Tree Freak
Fark this vid upload it taking forever!!!!! 7HRS now!! 1.68gb though.
parrisw
Tree Freak
Finally here it is.
A few cuts in the vid wern't too bad, I guess I could of shortened it a bit. Oh well.
[video=youtube;cr3ZbiNA1Uw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cr3ZbiNA1Uw[/video]
A few cuts in the vid wern't too bad, I guess I could of shortened it a bit. Oh well.
[video=youtube;cr3ZbiNA1Uw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cr3ZbiNA1Uw[/video]
parrisw
Tree Freak
LOL, I think I'll keep it for now. If you listen close when I put it down you can hear the erratic idle, hard to hear with the other saw an the chipper running. That's a 28" bar skip with 8pin. No high top cause that's what it came with. It kept going lean on the high too, I had it around 14k kept going up to 14.8k, barely 4 stroking, I don't like that.
It's hard to hear anything with a chipper running.
Thats skip:msp_scared::msp_thumbup:
Other saw sounded good as well is that your other 372?
parrisw
Tree Freak
The other saw in the vid was a 390 done by me as well, its got pretty mild porting, I never got any vid of my other 372 running today, I should of.
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parrisw
Tree Freak
I do ok I guess. As you can see he was having chain troubles, must of hit something, he just put it down at the end.
Like I said I'll take a saw that you are not using.
Yard trees, I'm surprised when I don't hit something.
Its a shame too, I've seen some Nice trees get chunked up for firewood just for this reason.
Bad tank vent?
I'd like to see what it does with the vent fixed.
How far out are you on the screws.
You'd think a 385/390 carb would be an easy swap on that 372.
parrisw
Tree Freak
Screws are at least 1 1/4, maybe slightly more, maybe I should try a 385 carb. I don't expect it to be much faster with it running right. It should open up some more though once broken in.
parrisw
Tree Freak
Well I figured out what the tank vent issue was, I must have had a retard moment when putting the tank on.
This is the way it looked when installed, as soon as I popped the green elbow off I heard the tank start venting.
WOW! Tested today when cold, after 1 tank of gas. HMM What to do? I think I'm just going to run it and see what happens.
This is the way it looked when installed, as soon as I popped the green elbow off I heard the tank start venting.
WOW! Tested today when cold, after 1 tank of gas. HMM What to do? I think I'm just going to run it and see what happens.
That's a pretty intense number but I think it'll be fine. As long as you're running good quality oil and gas you should be able to keep from turning the top of the piston into molten alloy.
I don't need that much compression though.
I don't need that much compression though.
parrisw
Tree Freak
That's a pretty intense number but I think it'll be fine. As long as you're running good quality oil and gas you should be able to keep from turning the top of the piston into molten alloy.
I don't need that much compression though.
LOL, I really wasn't shooting for this much, I've always had trouble getting enough comp out of 372's before, so I took a little more and well, look what happened. If I were running this thing as a full time gig I would not leave it that way. When I did run it the other day it did not exhibit symptoms of running hot.
