What's on your bench now?

Seriously? Do you know if that’s just for the US imported ones or across the board?

 

Seriously. There's a thread about it somewhere on here. I was quite surprised as well. I think it's all of them, but not positive. I'm sure some of the porters on here know for sure.

 

That saw had a rough life! Can't wait to see the results. My friend and mentor ran a 288 lite. He was an ex logger and taught me a lot. 288's hold a special place for me.

 

I was so enamored by how easy it was to work on my 61, so when it came time to buy a bigger 2 series the 288 was an obvious contender. From everything I read online, the guys that run a 288 love them.

 

The dirt bike idle is .

 

I'm very fond of mine.

 

When I bought mine, it was in similar shape as yours. I replaced seals, bearings, new piston/rings, top cover w/decals, oil pump, carb kit, muffler and NOS recoil. They sound very nice and run better

 

Nice, that gives me some hope that I can salvage mine too. I may end up dying the plastics black on mine, since each component faded to a different shade of orange. As much as form follows function, I still want to have a halfway decent looking saw after all the work I'm going to put into it.

 

Oh yeah, makes the hair on my arms stand up

 

Beautuful!

 

550xpg wrapped up. This one is headed to Cali.

 

Lucky Californian, wish it was me!

 

I wish it were mine too, lol.

 

Project 372XP rebuild is slowly coming along. I lost power in the storm yesterday but still managed to Rit dye the plastics black.

 

Playing around with the Meteor piston for the 288xp rebuild that’s coming up.

A full gram of aluminum lost just by smoothing the casting imperfections, and cleaning out/blending the side windows.

 

I started with a Hyway on my G288 clone and I'm going to use the same piston in a G660 I'm warming up for a friend.
It started out much lighter and I trimmed a little more off cleaning it up and trimming the skirt on the intake side instead of the intake port floor.
This is the out of the box starting weight. I can't remember which pin was lighter, but I remember there was a gram difference on them as well. I'm pretty sure on the G660 I'm going to have to add epoxy to the intake floor to get the intake duration down to 164 or so after cutting the base and squish. The intake timing on that jug stock was more duration than I want and looked like they were breaking in a new guy at the factory... That intake floor was botched, but I can save it.

 

Project OE346 got some attention. Discovered it is missing its tank vent. Without a doubt the dirtiest saw I’ve ever seen.

 

Looking spiffy. What kind of tank vent do these have? A rubber line or one of those porous plugs?

 

My research shows a compressed metal puck in a plastic holder w/ a nipple, then a line up to the carb box. If so, I won't go that route. I just messaged a friend to see what he does.

 

I believe husky thought better later on the idea of a line to air box, i changed one I worked on because I hot days the tank would pressurize enough to force gas into the air box flooding the saw.