Greetings,
A friend has a Stihl 271 Farm Boss with a strange oiling issue.
In brief, as you can see in the attached pic's there is plenty of oil coming out of the oil pump outlet. However, very little is getting onto the bar/chain and the chain is basically running dry.
The bar inlet holes and bar chain/channel are very clean.
After reading a couple of other threads I wonder if there is a oil pump outlet and bar inlet alignment problem. Please note this is the original bar (20 inch bar) that they got with the saw brand new. I've flipped the bar and the same problem.
Any thoughts, aside from buying another bar and trying it ?
Fortunately, it looks like the pump is pumping just fine.
A friend has a Stihl 271 Farm Boss with a strange oiling issue.
In brief, as you can see in the attached pic's there is plenty of oil coming out of the oil pump outlet. However, very little is getting onto the bar/chain and the chain is basically running dry.
The bar inlet holes and bar chain/channel are very clean.
After reading a couple of other threads I wonder if there is a oil pump outlet and bar inlet alignment problem. Please note this is the original bar (20 inch bar) that they got with the saw brand new. I've flipped the bar and the same problem.
Any thoughts, aside from buying another bar and trying it ?
Fortunately, it looks like the pump is pumping just fine.