Looks awful, feels great. 272 piston question (Black is the new orange!)

[david newbie]

I picked this up today for a reasonable price, someone thought spray painting it black would make it faster? it starts and runs pretty well, I have not seen that style of air filter before on another 272. I don't really want to put time and money into it, would you consider running it with that piston?

 

[82F100SWB]

Non HD filter, same as a 268. They did come with them.
Piston looks runnable from what I see, it may have some worn skirt rattle though, intake side is the tell for that.

 

[Bob Hedgecutter]

Its an ugly ducking- clean the muck out of it that is bound to be packed around the coil and run it.
To me, looks like the piston got hot PTO side of the exhaust port at some stage- but if the ring is free and compression okay- I would run it at this stage (for a personal saw- not for cleaning and flipping) until the top needs to come off.
My early 272 has the same filter set up- as above- borrowed from the 268 platform and pre HD.

 

[singinwoodwackr]

Where is the rot in the 2nd pic?

That was the standard air box for the 268 and 272. I have a few but went with the HD on my 268 build.

 

[david newbie]

That rot is on the clutch cover

 

[HumBurner]

That's pitch, not spray paint.

 

[Sidecarflip]

Obvious to me that whomever painted it, worked at Earl Schieb at one time....

 

[Sidecarflip]

One thing about my comment is.. You have to be older to know what Earl Schieb is.....lol

 

[david newbie]

One thing about my comment is.. You have to be older to know what Earl Schieb is.....lol

39.99$. !

 

[ballisticdoughnut]

I know you don’t wanna put much time into that saw but if it were mine I’d pull the cylinder and inspect. First picture of piston doesn’t look good. You mite get away with running 40:1 and tuning it a touch on the rich side, hard to say though.

 

[Sidecarflip]

39.99$. !

Started out at $29.99 but I suspect the cheap paint they used went up in cost a bit. I had a buggy painted there many, many years ago and they painted everything including the tires which they re-sprayed with black paint afterwards. Guess they were superceded by Maco at some point.

 

[singinwoodwackr]

I know you don’t wanna put much time into that saw but if it were mine I’d pull the cylinder and inspect. First picture of piston doesn’t look good. You mite get away with running 40:1 and tuning it a touch on the rich side, hard to say though.

Any saw that old and looking like that gets a full tear down for me

 

[david newbie]

Any saw that old and looking like that gets a full tear down for me

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

 

[Bob Hedgecutter]

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

You pick up that saw and you aint be holding nothing beautiful.

 

[david newbie]

You pick up that saw and you aint be holding nothing beautiful.