There should be no use of rubber for gaskets there. Plain automotive gasket material should be used.
Nik's Poulan Thread
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There should be no use of rubber for gaskets there. Plain automotive gasket material should be used.
Mark,
The gasket I made is paper material (Victor Reinz. Mahle) about 0.025 thick. Do you think that should work OK?
rms61moparman
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Most of US weren't confused at all.
Thanks for posting the proof of what we've known all along.
That'll make it easier to prove to those who still don't know.
Mike
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Ran across this and since I'm a machinist by trade I can't help but try to drive home the point about wheels coming apart being a bad day. A fellow I used to work with had a nasty scar up most of of one of his forearms and partially up his bicep. There was another on his neck, right about where the jugular vein is. One night everyone was sitting around trading stories on break and it turned out that a grinding wheel had exploded on him. Part of the wheel rolled it's way up his arm and tore into his neck. The doc told him that it missed his jugular by about a millimeter.
Any time you're going to mount a wheel on a grinder, ring test it first. Put a pencil through the arbor hole, hold the wheel up via the pencil, and tap the wheel near the edge with a screwdriver handle, wooden hammer handle, etc.. You should hear a clear ringing sound from the wheel, almost like hitting a tuning fork. If you hear a "thunk" instead of the ring, break the wheel with a hammer(or concrete floor) and throw it in the trash. That sound means it's cracked or otherwise defective and liable to come apart when running.
Eccentric
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Most of US weren't confused at all.
Thanks for posting the proof of what we've known all along.
That'll make it easier to prove to those who still don't know.
Mike
Well I'll be..........I've been pronouncing Poulan correctly all along.
Shoot, I just realised, I remember seeing that commericial on TV when it first came out and I feel older now......
brokenbudget
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Eccentric
Mister Wizard
you're welcome:hmm3grin2orange:
i was 3
I was 5.
redunshee
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Just so long as you don't feel as old as you are!
redunshee
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I was 5.
Five!!!!! Dang.
cowroy
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Yup, My high school washed their hands of me in 1972.
So I remember them adds well.In the summer of 1978, I ordered new from the factory, my only non Ford vehicle I ever owned, a 1979 Jeep CJ5. Still hadn't bought a Poulan saw, but those adds had me leaning that way.
Gregg,
you're welcome:hmm3grin2orange:
i was 3
Me, to, but put a 5 behind the three..
I graduated HS the same year Poulan introduced the ground breaking at the time Micro XXV, 1977.
About 2 years before I started working at the AC and Poulan dealership.
There were some other commercials around that time frame from Poulan as well, but I can't remember them off hand.
That time frame was good for Poulan as they were putting out some good stuff that was laying the ground work for better things coming.
About 2 years before I started working at the AC and Poulan dealership.
There were some other commercials around that time frame from Poulan as well, but I can't remember them off hand.
That time frame was good for Poulan as they were putting out some good stuff that was laying the ground work for better things coming.
Yup, My high school washed their hands of me in 1972.
Gregg,
You've got me by 2 years. I'm glad someone on here is older than me!
As far i can tell from my 4200,i don't think that this gasket is rubber.You are speaking about the gasket which is between the reed block and the plastic carb adapter,right Tim?
Just showing to other poulans to show green color that my camera dont show.
Thanks again Roger for the better shell.
Thanks again Roger for the better shell.
Yes. It just doesn't look or feel like a paper gasket. It is working well so I don't want to peel it off.
I think I'll make an adaptor to carb gasket and leave the venturi hole unpunched to see if I can get a good seal. If I do, I'll punch out the venturi hole.
