EngineNoO9
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Ok sorry to post about this saw again but figured I needed to give this one it's own thread. I'm at a loss and I'm probably giving up on this saw after this one unless someone can give me a good idea why this happened for the second time. First piston seized and I assumed it was probably because of crap in the cylinder since it had sat so long. So it sat for a very long time until I just bought a new cylinder and piston. Installed it and it fired quickly. Ran for maybe 30 seconds and then stopped. I couldn't pull the handle and I'm thinking crap... It happened again. Well, I looked it over and I could still spin it but it kept stopping at one part of the stroke. Ended up pulling the bar oil filler and it let me spin it again. Yay. Well. Couldn't get it started still so I looked things over and saw that my spark plug had a bunch of metal on it. Odd. Thought probably from when the last piston seized but this one was still spinning so I figured I'd be good. Well. Out of precaution I broke it down to make sure the piston was clean and there were no flakes in it that'd potentially destroy another cylinder and piston. Get the cylinder off and this is what I see...
That doesn't look good. Take my time trying to get it out to make sure i don't damage the cylinder if possible. It got stuck once but I think I managed to save the cylinder maybe....
So here's a closer look
So um. Yeah. Not sure how that happened. When it was still attached I looked at the stroke and couldn't figure how the heck it smashed that part. Thoughts? As mentioned I can't see dumping more money into this (have a sprocket and bar on the way for it too. Though the bar should easily be returned) unless I can figure out it what's wrong (within reason). It's looking like it's most likely going to be a parts saw though....
That doesn't look good. Take my time trying to get it out to make sure i don't damage the cylinder if possible. It got stuck once but I think I managed to save the cylinder maybe....
So here's a closer look
So um. Yeah. Not sure how that happened. When it was still attached I looked at the stroke and couldn't figure how the heck it smashed that part. Thoughts? As mentioned I can't see dumping more money into this (have a sprocket and bar on the way for it too. Though the bar should easily be returned) unless I can figure out it what's wrong (within reason). It's looking like it's most likely going to be a parts saw though....