Cooling a Hot Saw

[MrJimH]

The story:

A Stihl 036 Pro was given away after it was modified so it could out-saw a MS 440.
After he won the bet, he gave away the saw.

Now I have to make it safe to use and start.
It had a MS 460 Carb, muffler mod, and a new piston/cyl from a 460 I guess.

I ordered a new 036 Carb, muffler, but replacing the piston/cyl would cost too much.

The problems were too loud, no chock.

My question is will the MS 460 piston / cyl even work with those parts put back to stock 036?

Another question is did they have to modify the case to mount the piston / cyl ? Will it be reliable ?

 

[Boleclimber]

I would sell it to someone wanting heavily modified 036 then buy a stock 036.

 

[MrJimH]

I would sell it to someone wanting heavily modified 036 then buy a stock 036.

In its current state it could not be sold, you had to use a thumb to chock it, hold the throttle open with your toe. To safely do that you would need to take the bar & chain off to start it. That hot of a saw would not last and few here want a saw that loud or hot.

New MS 362's are ~650-700 and the used market here is small and the used market here is small since good saw are kept.

It was also not my job, he came to me to make a reliable and functional firewood saw out of it.