When the wife is away.....

Watched the video, not bad not bad at all! Couple suggestions
1. Put the cases in the oven with the gasket surface facing up, set them on some foil, the heat will not hurt the paint. With the sealing surfaces facing down the bearings can/will shift away from the bearing cup shoulder, making assembly difficult.
2. Get the crankcase assembly tool, which will eliminate the need to heat the cases a second time.
3. If you are quick you can heat the cases once to remove the old bearings by tapping the case on your wife's cutting board, and drop in the new ones in a single heat.

 

I use some assembly lube on the crankshaft halves (from auto parts store Permatex) and on the inside of the inner race when pulling the crank into the case. You do the clutch side first, then put the locating dowels in the clutch side and the gasket, then set the flywheel side of the case down over the crank, then use the assembly tool to pull the crank through the flywheel side bearing until the gasket is clamped between the case halves. Don't go nuts final clamping is done with the case bolts. Torque the case bolts to 10NM. I noticed that you were having trouble with the rod getting in the way when trying to assemble the case. Put two of the jug bolts in the flywheel side of the case and use a rubber band wrapped around the rod and hooked over the jug bolts to keep it in the correct position.

 

Not sure where you are in NY but you are welcome to come round when I put the 'Custom Saw' together to see how I do it using HVA tools to put the case together. That way you can see how to do it before spending your cash! I don't have a video camera so bring yours and we can make a cartoon!

 

I will send you the Husqvarna Service Tools catalog. Some of the tools will work across multiple saws in the same family others are specific to a single model.

 

So that's how you get the wife to buy a parts washer.

 

There would be HELL to pay if I put chainsaw parts in my wife's new oven or dishwasher. Epic....biblical...salt the earth kind of stuff.

 

You also need to make damm sure there is no chainsaw goo anywhere on the case. Baked chainsaw goo does not smell at all like apple pie. As soon as she comes through the door, the jig is up! Seals also smell really bad when cooked, remove them first.

 

My GF has no ground to stand on with the heating things in the stove department.
I remodeled a couple years ago and bought all new appliances - the new stove has the heating element beneath the enamel bottom so no cal rod exposed.

Called the GF when leaving work a few days after getting it all complete and she was baking something - I jokingly asked if she'd burned it up yet, she cautiously replied no...and later after I'd been home for a couple hours fessed up to the aluminum burnt to the bottom of the stove - She had laid a sheet in the bottom to keep it clean - not knowing that you can't do that with these newer stoves

She was really afraid that I was going to get mad, I just chuckled told her everyone's stove has stuff burnt to the bottom, ours is just shiny stuff

 

Was gonna say not sure how I missed this thread but I was at the farm for 4 days around its time with no signal.

 

I use a hot air gun to heat the cases , 150-200 c bearings in the freezer, then i put the bearings and i left them cold .
then i have a soldering iron without nose and i tuch the inside ring of the bearing , this hot more the inside ring of the bearing than the all bearing and the case, so you we have a hot inside ring and cold case, cranksaft of course in the freezer. then i put the shaft at the one side, and all theese again to the freezer and start the same procedure with the other half case. i never hot the case for second time its not need . the husqvarna- stihl tools are always ready just in case

 

Cool post - learning some stuff.....but....also missed the thread on the new baby boy - congrats MM - can't beat that! Cheers!

 

I agree with you 100% all theese magics with screws, nails , e.t.c the only thing that can do is a scratches in the cases, i can not understand some peoples they spent thousands and thousands for buying saws but they dont want spent some money for buying some tools for repairing correctly theirs saws.