I rebuilt this 346xp about 10 year's ago It had a rough life Fried the meteor Parts on order to rebuild it again.
He bought the saw new after his stihl ms290 was stolen He's engraved every part of this saw It makes it look like a stolen saw now.
Nephew had this dropped off at his shop today. Customer says..."It has a new chain but its still making noise and sparking. I think the clutch is slipping."
FYI, Homelite 150's have a left hand thread, one way bearing on the flywheel side that the starter uses to spin the engine over. I know its left handed after snapping the crankshaft off with my 1400 ft pound Milwaukee impact trying to get it off. Lol. At least its the sloppy crank, not the good one.
I converted an old Firestone shingle / carpenter hatchet into a little Bushcraft hatchet. 13" overall length. I have another I'm doing with a different shape.
I rebuilt my friends 346xp for the 3rd time New cylinder kit He wanted a big bore this time i cleaned the ports up on it and it runs strong. Seals,lines,carb kit etc. I cleaned up the original cylinder for next time.
Has anyone used one of those chips, that eliminate points on a saw, only to have it not run correctly after? This is the second time on two different saws. The first was an old Remington and it would barely run at all. I reinstalled the points and it ran fine. Recently I put a new Oregon chip in my Homelite super EZ, when going through it, and now it pops like the timing is to far advanced. I filed the flywheel key to re-tard the timing some but it still does it unless under heavy load. I'll file some more to see if it improves. If not, I'm going to put the points back in and set the flywheel back to factory with another key to see if it goes away. Carb is rebuilt. New gaskets and seals in the saw. Tuning doesn't get rid of it. It even pops out the exhaust on deacceleration.
I have an update. I removed the flywheel and key. I re-tarded the timing the full with of the key. The popping is gone but its sluggish to spool up and falls on its face in the cut. So my initial hypothesis is correct, I just need to find its sweet spot. More later.
Another update on this pita... So, firstly, my assumption that it was to far advanced was from previous saws that I had advanced the timing on and it made them act exactly like this saw was, hence me re-tarding the timing to adress this. Well, I thought I re-tarded it but, unbeknownst to me as of the last update, the crankshaft spun inside when tightening and it actually advanced the timing considerably. So I took the key, filed about 40% of it away and assembled it advanced. Bingo. Pulls well and no more breaking up. Good throttle response.
