Ray Bennett
ArboristSite Guru
Well I feel better after squaring the deal on my free 440. I was brought the final saw to fix which was a 170 that must have been stored In the oil pan of an old mack truck. At first site I never thought it would run. The saw was totally black with gunk inside and out. I pulled the air filter cover and much to my dismay it appeared the saw had been run in a dirty environment with no air filter. The carb and air intake was covered with black gunk. I could not get the muffler off to look at the piston because the muffler bolts were rusted fast. I could not even pull the cord to feel compression cause it had no pull cord. I thought I would fix the cord first but you can not get the side cover off without taking off the handle. Of course the handle is held on with a grommet that later would not go back together. Then I could not fit a normal socket on the carb nuts because the trigger handle is in the way. (I want to know which one of you stihl tech's pi$$ed off the stihl engineers when they made this saw, THALL or Lakeside or someone else?, fes up!) Well after 5 hours of cleaning, cussing and replacing a few simple parts to my surprise the saw ran but poorly. I figured the carb was shot even though it looked in great shape after I cleaned the heck out of it. A quick carb adjust had it running like new. It is kind of a cool little saw but what a pain to work on. It did not cost me much in parts but required more of my time and patients than rebuilding my 036.
