Forgive me if this has been beat to death but I'm getting conflicting info on this. i bought a new ms660 and was pretty shocked after taking off the air filter after one day of sawing. Had all kind of fines around the carb. Cleaned it all out and reinstalled the cleaned filter and made sure it was tight. Next day at lunch I took it off and it was the same. Seems to leak around the post and you hopefully can see it from this pic.
This is after 3 tanks of fuel. I read on here about a new filter and wrote the number down and went to a dealer. It wasn't my normaldealer but I was in the neighborhood and I had my old filter. They said it was a good number but they didn't have any in stock. He went to their displays and pulled a filter from a new and said here you go. It was the same as what I had and he "claimed" it was the "upgraded" one. I asked him to pull an old stock one and it was the same as well so I left there.
Made a mistake in the topic line. It should be an HD2 filter
Made it to my normal dealer today and they said they never heard of the problem and have never ordered the new one. They called Stihl's tech line and they said that I didn't have it tight enough and there is no problem with the old filtering system. I told the counter guy I, along with you or Stihl must not be tightening it tight enough as it was bad from the factory settings.
The tech guy then went on to say that they will not sell any of the new HD2 filters till the old ones are all bought up. NICE!!!! I swear I saw a pic on here and they are completely different. Who's lying here or am I just nuts? Have any of you have them allready? They said 2-3 weeks at the earliest.
This is after 3 tanks of fuel. I read on here about a new filter and wrote the number down and went to a dealer. It wasn't my normaldealer but I was in the neighborhood and I had my old filter. They said it was a good number but they didn't have any in stock. He went to their displays and pulled a filter from a new and said here you go. It was the same as what I had and he "claimed" it was the "upgraded" one. I asked him to pull an old stock one and it was the same as well so I left there.
Made a mistake in the topic line. It should be an HD2 filter
Made it to my normal dealer today and they said they never heard of the problem and have never ordered the new one. They called Stihl's tech line and they said that I didn't have it tight enough and there is no problem with the old filtering system. I told the counter guy I, along with you or Stihl must not be tightening it tight enough as it was bad from the factory settings.
The tech guy then went on to say that they will not sell any of the new HD2 filters till the old ones are all bought up. NICE!!!! I swear I saw a pic on here and they are completely different. Who's lying here or am I just nuts? Have any of you have them allready? They said 2-3 weeks at the earliest.
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