The Forestry Forum

This Fall, my MS271 has been very hard to start.  I've had to pull the cord 15 or 20 times to get it going....and often flooded the engine, as well.  I suspected the ignition coil.  I had a box of parts I salvaged off my old MS036 when it died about 5 years ago...the ignition coil among the parts.  So, I compared the two coils, and outside of the 036 coil being "thicker", the dimensions seemed the same.  I installed the old 036 coil, and outside of a slightly longer plug cable, which I re-routed, everything seemed to fit.  I set the gap to .5MM, and closed it back up.  I gave it 2 pulls on full choke before it "burped", then it fired right up on the 2nd pull with the choke off.  This was a week ago, and I've been firing it up in my workshop every day, since, with good results.  
I've got an outdoor wood furnace, and 40 acres of forest, so I harvest several dead trees every Fall/Winter, which saves a bunch on the electric bill.  We are supposed to have some mild weather next week, so I'll give this "fix" a good workout, and if it holds up, I've got a good working saw, again.   

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