New 044

[Ironworker]

Saw this on the bay the other day with a buy now price or make an offer so I made an offer trying to get it at a good price then thought about it and all the good deals I passed up on and about an hour later I pulled the trigger, I've wanted one of these for a while and not many come by this clean. I'll give it a good cleaning and fire it up tomorrow.

 

[windthrown]

Well, as long as it is OEM and not all Chicom, it will be good. Put a 460 DP muffler cover on it and return the carb and you will be good to go.

 

[DanTheCanadian]

This may or may not be a you suck deal depending on how much you paid.

 

[Ironworker]

Well, as long as it is OEM and not all Chicom, it will be good. Put a 460 DP muffler cover on it and return the carb and you will be good to go.

I'm guessing this will work, I was planing on doing a muff mod.

 

[windthrown]

Yes, that is the DP muffler cover, or mod, depending on what you want to call it. An easy bolt-on ~10% gain on that saw.

 

[GrassGuerilla]

Very nice. Actually what I was looking for. Don't see too many like that around here either. When they come up for sale, gotta move quick. Hope it's good for you.

 

[1Alpha1]

Congrats and enjoy!

 

[fearofpavement]

What exactly is it that you feel needs to be cleaned? Looks like someone else already did that.

 

[GrassGuerilla]

What exactly is it that you feel needs to be cleaned? Looks like someone else already did that.

If by "cleaned" he meant to cut some wood... Yep. Looks like its been cleaned more than worked so far. Clean 044 4 sho.

 

[blsnelling]

Wow, that's almost a new saw. Very nice!

 

[RiverRat2]

Wow, that's almost a new saw. Very nice!

Yeah it looks to be a jewel,,, the paint on the front crankcase halves is not hardly blemished, lets have a close up pix of the piston rings and lower skirt area through the exhaust port,,, that will confirm Bad brads assessment... I am inclined to agree!!!! Jusr sayin

 

[LowVolt]

Care to share what you gave for it? Damn fine 044!

Shoot I don't care what you paid.....YOU SUCK!!!!

 

[DexterDay]

Yeah the paint on the front crankcase halves is not hardly blemished, lets have a close up pix of the piston rings and lower skirt area through the exhaust port,,, that will confirm Bad brads assessment... I am inclined to agree!!!! Jusr sayin

Yeah, the muff is more worn than the paint?.


Lots of people are painting cases nowadays. I have a can of paint myself. Although I have never used it, I thought about it.

Thats a clean 044, to be an early non decomp model.

 

[RiverRat2]

Yeah, the muff is more worn than the paint?.


Lots of people are painting cases nowadays. I have a can of paint myself. Although I have never used it, I thought about it.

Thats a clean 044, to be an early non decomp model.

Yeah That's why I wanted to see the piston/rings/skirt

 

[MustangMike]

Nice looking saw, and don't forget to put a HD-2 filter on to go along with that dual port cover, the "in" has to match the "out". My saw, with a ZAMA carb, works great with the tune set at 1 & 1/8 for both screws instead of 1 turn out for both with the modifications.

I notice that most 044s (and 440s) have side skirts on the air filter cover that my saw does not have. Anyone know when they added that feature? I don't think the 10 mm saws have that.

 

[Ironworker]

Yeah, the muff is more worn than the paint?.


Lots of people are painting cases nowadays. I have a can of paint myself. Although I have never used it, I thought about it.

Thats a clean 044, to be an early non decomp model.

Yea not much wear on the muffler actually it just seemed to discolor that way cause the back half is still black, I thought it might have been switched but it has the stihl stamp , maybe just a bad batch of paint from the factory. And it's definitely a low hour saw with a little use, some of the paint on the bottom is worn.

 

[Ironworker]

Yeah That's why I wanted to see the piston/rings/skirt

Now can I please enjoy my nice score.

 

[RiverRat2]

That's a good one!!!! It may be a 10MM wristpin saw if the serial number is prior to 29 382 283 if so it will have a 10mm piston pin

 

[jeff taswelder]

OK you SUCK

 

[Ironworker]

That's a good one!!!! It may be a 10MM wristpin saw if the serial number is prior to 29 382 283 if so it will have a 10mm piston pin

the first 3 were 137 then_ _ _ _ _ 4 is that a good thing.