Hello all,
First off, thank you for the accumulated knowledge I have received from lurking over the past few months. You all are a wealth of old-school knowledge mixed with a new-age way of communicating it all complete with emoticons! :D A perfect marriage of new and old in my opinion.
I am currently making my first desk job survivable by dreaming of the day I can buy a farm with a woodlot back on the dead-end boondocks I grew up on. Paid for university (with help from parents; good folks and they deserve a nod) by working on a farm back home for 60+ hours a week only to find that I miss it now that I have the "dream job" after graduating. Such is life.
The chainsaw I started with at 15, almost 10 years ago (as soon as my mother would let me) has been my after work project for the last little while. It is a Stihl 024 AVS Woodboss inherited from my Opa (Grandfather in Dutch) that has been crippled by my youthful ignorance and years of hard use by him. A badly burnt P/C has been replaced with one from an 026 (thank you Sawtroll and Dozerdan for the info on how a 026 P/C fits a 024 Super) and the fuel lines, air filter and carb kit is in the process of being replaced.
Here is my question and potential problem: I am not confident of the original cause of the scoring.
I originally thought that it may have been bad gas that I put in or a tired air filter but when I pulled of the cylinder I found what I would describe as corrosion in the crank case. Pitting and flaking of the paint-like coating around the lip of the cylinder mount and a significant amount of the same where the impulse hose enters the case. I removed loose material with a small screw driver and flushed with mixed gas but when I pulled the jug off I found more junk in the case. After a second repetition, same result but a bit less stuff.
Am I doomed?
Mike from Ontario
I don't know about doomed in the true sense of the word .It's some kind of an e-coat which I assume is to inhibit corrossion.
Weather it's common to flake off I have no idea . I just took a jaunt to the garage and eyeballed a set of 034 cases and some of it was flaked off .That saw died of a lean burn though ,flakes had nothing to do with it .
Doomed as in "inevitable destruction or ruin" with regard to my efforts in having a good running saw, not Judgment Day ;D
Thanks for checking your stable Al, do you think that those flakes could get stuck in the exhaust port area and cause serious scoring?
Also, just out of curiosity, I have read a lot about lean seizing and how an experienced person can tell by the feel or sound of the saw but no particulars. What are the symptoms?
If it's seized already it's too late .The symptoms are running out lean after a few minutes of running at speed .Richen it up and it only progessively gets worse as time goes on .Let it cool off it will run okay for a short period then start it all over again---bad seals .
Now the flakey e-coat or whatever it is .Quite honestly I've never ran into it before or just didn't pay any attention to it ,over looked whatever .
What to do,don't know.Maybe lift the cylinder and fill the crankcase with fuel. Let it sit a day,swish it around and dump it out .Let the engine sit upside down for a day to drain out and put it back together
I suppose you could split the cases and give it a physic if it bothers you that much .
pearsonm,welcome to the forum.
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Took me longer to figure out how to upload a picture than it did to break down the saw >:(
Well, you did real good with the pic. We like pics, and a big welcome to the Forestry Forum. smiley_thumbsup