After a lengthy internet troll I have located most of what I wish to replace while this saw is apart, just wish I had found one-stop shopping as the freight will be more $ than the cost of the bits ordered. I'm gonna take a stab at resealing the oiler, new rings, seals, ignition parts and see how the saw runs. Going back through the carb again too, had less than thirty minutes run time when it started acting up. Again. Might be the "kit" used was old stock and dried out. It was fine off the bench but after putting it to work... It acted like a it had a holed carb pulse diapragm or crankcase leak - had to constantly play w/carb settings, sensitive to saw positioning (overhead tree pruning) and very hard to restart after it either died on its own (when returned to idle) or was shut off. The last straw was when it wouldn't even run cleanly at WOT. Last year I felt the oiler wasn't correctly installed hence the leak. At teardown this time it was obvious the bar oiler was leaking. Bad as ever, I swear it puked a quarter tank of oil.
Mark, the old thread was very helpful. Thanks.
O2S, the oiler being a crankcase leak was a wild a** guess, I was wondering if an attempt at repairing it was akin to beating a dead horse.
