(I just noticed some of the videos attached at the ate missing. They are all there. Some of the urls changed but are listed in the playlist.)
I spoke with goldy and asked about his experience in replacing the decomp. One thing to you new guys getting ready to build your kits, there has been very little to replace on the saw. I had trouble with my decomp and so ordered one and I showed it above. After talking with Goldy his experience leads me to strongly suggest that you replace the decomp before you place the cylinder.
This is the only saw in the kit line that has this type decomp. I am going on what he said and what I see now that I can look at it closely. Its a match to the huztl so they duplicated it. you dont spin it in as one piece. I will remove the eclip and the piston will fall out. You take a nice big bladed screwdriver and run the body in the cylinder and from inside the cylinder you use something to drop it back into the body (he used a pen magnetic) and then secure it with the circlip. Your saws health depends on the eclip.
So i have to remove the cylinder, means the carb and the muffler. so you can see where the best time for you to do it is before you assembly the thing. The metal of the oem looks very high quality and the eclip is as well. so thats a one and done deal. the saw overall is very high quality so something small like this is not a budget breaker and it sure is excellent insurance. these photos are more detailed. if i run into something i will say something.
I kinda forgot about this, on this first saw they sent out it had the original hex head cylinder bolts that have this huge head on them. That's what you see in the one photo. The kit had t27. Huztl sent out a hexhead tool in the tool pouch, but I ordered a 6" power driver 5mm hex head so I can use a 1/4" socket on it and get a good bite when i replace it.
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