caesarleigh
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I didn't want to start a thread but couldn't find any w/this issue. I took my 355T hiking to do trail maintenance & was carrying it bar pointed up in my Dakine builder pack for approximately 8 hours. I placed the saw in a plastic bag to keep my expensive pack from getting oily from the bar. Every time I stopped to make a xmas tree size cut I noticed the inside of the plastic bag getting more oily. Once home I removed the recoil starter to find the inside of the fan area wet w/oil including the breather hole. I cleaned it up, filled the oil tank full & placed the saw in its holder on the front of my dirt bike, bar pointed down. Left it like that for a couple days & no more ooze from anywhere. As far as I can reason when packed bar up the breather hole is below the filler cap & was able to flow backwards & ooze out.
Normally I pack my 355T, bar pointing down, on the front of my dirt bike. It lives in this position in its holder unless I am running it. Today I noticed a puddle of oil on my trailer deck & the saw oozed oil out the breather again. It has been in that position for at least three weeks since it was ran last. Oil tank was maybe 2/3rds full when parked, looked nearly that full still despite the leak. A little goes a long way.
Anyone experience this? Anyone have any ideas? Constructive criticisms or insults? I am hopeful this is a one off or easily fixed. I have a shiny new 2511T for next season & it uses the same breather in the same location. I hope this isn't an issue w/the design not agreeing w/my storage/transport methods.
Pointless past experience story time & potential fight starter: At the beginning of the nineties a friend asked me to store his mid eighties big Husky falling saw in my shed for the winter. No I don't remember the model but it was big, ugly & heavy.... like my first ex. Had a 24 inch bar though, the Husky, not my ex. I thoughtlessly placed it on the bare plywood floor bottom down like it would sit idling on the log landing. A couple of months later I go in my shed for some long forgotten reason and find a very large bar oil puddle under the Husky. A whole tank full puddle, on my once perfect bare plywood floor. Swearing commenced... and continued. I did a search on here & found several leaking bar oil threads for Husky saws marking their territory. It still doesn't make me feel better. My condolences to Husky owners everywhere.
Normally I pack my 355T, bar pointing down, on the front of my dirt bike. It lives in this position in its holder unless I am running it. Today I noticed a puddle of oil on my trailer deck & the saw oozed oil out the breather again. It has been in that position for at least three weeks since it was ran last. Oil tank was maybe 2/3rds full when parked, looked nearly that full still despite the leak. A little goes a long way.
Anyone experience this? Anyone have any ideas? Constructive criticisms or insults? I am hopeful this is a one off or easily fixed. I have a shiny new 2511T for next season & it uses the same breather in the same location. I hope this isn't an issue w/the design not agreeing w/my storage/transport methods.
Pointless past experience story time & potential fight starter: At the beginning of the nineties a friend asked me to store his mid eighties big Husky falling saw in my shed for the winter. No I don't remember the model but it was big, ugly & heavy.... like my first ex. Had a 24 inch bar though, the Husky, not my ex. I thoughtlessly placed it on the bare plywood floor bottom down like it would sit idling on the log landing. A couple of months later I go in my shed for some long forgotten reason and find a very large bar oil puddle under the Husky. A whole tank full puddle, on my once perfect bare plywood floor. Swearing commenced... and continued. I did a search on here & found several leaking bar oil threads for Husky saws marking their territory. It still doesn't make me feel better. My condolences to Husky owners everywhere.
