stihl 064 help

[dustinwilt68]

I sold my new 372 today (cut 1 tree) and bought this stihl 064, had 10lbs of compression, and some light scoring in cylinder, think j can fix that part, but the piston might need replaced? What are your thoughts? The rest of the saw seems solid, not beat up. Any help is appreciated, thanks.

 

[tickhound93]

New piston. Post pictures of the cylinder let us have a peek.

 

[dustinwilt68]

Here are pics. Can you do a gasket delete on these and still have enough squish?

 

[jeff taswelder]

I have a 038m that the piston was 5 times worse than that
cleaned it up and replaced rings cleaned up cil and runs verry well.
its a see how it goes saw
i do have a spare parts saw if it craps out on me.
so far it has cut a crap load of wood

 

[tickhound93]

Have to measure with gasket installed. I would clean that cylinder up and use it.

 

[tickhound93]

Yeah you could clean the piston but why chance a major failure

 

[jeff taswelder]

I'm not saying that it should be done.
I did it for a test.
I do have spare parts

 

[dustinwilt68]

Yeah I have used mastermind method of cleaning cylinder for a 346xp that looked worse, I was thinking of a meteor brand piston $40.00, OEM is $127.00 on ebay, thoughts on that?

 

[tickhound93]

Meteor is good.

 

[dustinwilt68]

I have always used OEM but 127.00 is steep compared to 40.00, I have read good things about meteor.

 

[tickhound93]

Hell I've bought farmertec pistons on the bay for a dollar and have really been impressed with them.

 

[dustinwilt68]

Good to hear.

 

[craneguy1]

Dont 86 the gasket on an 064....dont deck the head either.

 

[bigbadbob]

Some thing else is wrong if you only have 10lbs of compression in that saw.
With damage like that I would expect quite a bit more????
Whats up with that??
BBB

 

[dustinwilt68]

Sorry it was 140lbs compression

 

[bigbadbob]

Sorry it was 140lbs compression

Much better, I would throw a meteor piston kit in it.
BBB

 

[dustinwilt68]

K. Anyone ever gasket delete 1 of these saws?

 

[tickhound93]

No but make sure you are thorough with measurements. As I'm sure you know.

 

[craneguy1]

Dont do it.

 

[dustinwilt68]

K. From the research I have done, these need a gasket I prefer squish to be 0.018 at a minimum.