The other day my Jonny 2171 was acting up. Sometimes it would start, then it wouldn't. One day it would start, next day it wouldn't. This was frustrating me greatly! I didn't try to diagnose it in the woods, cuz I was out there to cut, not work on saws. So, I called my buddy who always works on saws to inquire about this problem. He says, well, it's probably the coil acting up. Sometimes has spark sometimes it doesn't. So now I had my head full of this knowledge and didn't investigate any farther. I mean, the coil's going bad, why look beyond that, right? So, Sunday I took the saw over to his place to fix it. He's one of those guys who, if you have a Jonny saw, he has the parts to fix it times 10. Good guy to know. We start with the switch. It's fine. Check for spark, it has spark. Good spark. Well, right now the coil's working I guess. So then he takes it outside to see if it fires up. Pulls the choke out and lo and behold, there's the problem! The dang choke rod had come off the carb! I'm tellin' ya'll, I felt so stupid! I could feel my face turning red even! lol Why didn't I do a little more investigating, I might have found that! Oh well, life goes on! Ted
This might make you feel a little better… 10" of new snow. I get all excited and round up the wife and both small kids. Drive down to a remote beach area in our 4x4 Subaru wagon in the deep snow. Maybe 3 miles total. We're all ooooing and ahhhhing until we got back and I tried to back up at home. A really bad grinding sound… not good at all. I had destroyed the transmission, drive train, engine, tires, glove compartment… everything, according to my bride… (did I mention she didn't think driving down there was a good idea at all… ) So… we call the Subaru place and have a flatbed wrecker come and haul it in… cause, you know, I'd destroyed our new car (Did I mention that… ) We're sitting in the waiting area for about an hour… then a mechanic comes out to give us the "news"… which by then, I had convinced myself that we'd need a loan to pay for it. With kind of a chuckle and a grin, he says "here's your problem", and hands me a rock. Bout the size of a large marble. Apparently it got lodged up on top of the drive shaft so when I went forward, it just rolled out of the way… but when I reversed it, the rock got bound up against the frame making some really "unusual sounds". I have no idea, to this day, how that rock got up there…
My brother in law was ranting about how his saw was a piece of junk and wouldn't run so while I was over there I offered to take a look at it, opened up the gas tank and said try adding fuel.......... It fired up on the third pull.
I told my buddy how embarrassed I was. He said I shouldn't be as embarrassed as he was one time when he put a saw back together, went out to fire it up, only to then realize he had not put the rings on the piston! Ted
We have all those "moments" in our life Probably not the first and won't be the last Glad that J-red is up and running again
Sold a customer a band saw blade, Guy was back the next day spouting and fuming that I had made the blades backwards. I never said a word , just turned it inside out in front of him. This of course completely took the wind out of his sails as it were, he meekly tucked tail and exited the shop. Friend of mine was using my lathe just then I looked at him , he me, and we couldn't get anything done for the next 20 minutes. I have heard stories of guys turning chainsaw blades inside out although I have never seen one that way.
Can you please, please tell me the secret to chainsaw chains when they get all curled around… inside, outside, etc… last time I had one in such a mess, thought my head was gonna explode. My logger buddy showed me once, but I've long forgotten. He did something to it and then just snapped it… came right out. I get them un-gumped after a while but… and, prolly there's just no fixin stupid…
