I had to knock a bunch of dust and wood chips off this thread. When I was cleaning my saws a couple weeks ago, because of a YT video I watched, which suggested sighting down the edge of the bar. Well, I did. A little wavy, eh? So, I checked online and came up with an Oregon bar/chain offer for $41. I went to my local power shop. Told what I seeing online. He said the best he could was $56 for a husqvarna bar only, no chain. He told me to "go for it". So, I did. Before and after. There's still life on the existing chain, so it stayed on. I'll be sure to drizzle a bit of oil on the chain and manually work it around before cutting with it. It might make the trip with me to the Connecticut gtg. While researching, I came to understand that it's the same chain that all my other huskys have, except 2 inches/6 links longer. Would be interesting to run this 350 with a 16" bar/chain, should I ever have to.
We've bent a few up over the years, Huh Mike? I remember one distinctively had a nice (Z) shape to it! Looking good Buddy!
I bent my last bar while helping cut wood at the park. It got driven into the ground by a tree. Turns out the rails were worn out to .080" in places on a .050" bar! Eek! I swapped to a 3/8" setup, but the .325 is better. I ordered a bar and it should be here soon so I can go back to .325.
I recently pulled my 350 off the shelf after 7 years and it needed all of that. I'm putting it together now. I found an actual Husky replacement intake boot that has a metal band. The fuel and impulse lines all needed to be replaced. Go through everything M2theB listed and it will be a dependable saw.
350's are great saws. Every one I have had my hands on has needed a complete go-through to make sure it was up to par. They are rock solid reliable saws after a teardown/reassemble with any needed parts replaced. I think more are killed by abuse than anything else. People run dull chains and abuse the saws.
Well, there's another chapter in the saga of this saw. I was using it bucking/noodling some RO. After a couple days of use and multiple tanks of fuel, I noticed it was running hot. I shut it off and it wouldn’t start. Cylinder and piston scored. I hate when that happens. It was asked of me if there was any chance of running it with straight gas. I'm the only one to use that saw and I'm sure it wasn't straight gassed. Who asked me that? It was FHC's own M2theB I offered it to him free as a parts saw. We went back and forth and after some negotiations, we met this morning. He took my dead saw and I took a 350 he had been working on. We swapped powerboats. I just put my 18" bar and chain on it and fired it up. No chance to use it today, but it'll get a bit of a workout shortly.
Many years ago my first Stihl an 028 was raw gassed by accident and toasted. It could happen. I label the can with "MIX" on the side to be sure. The mix and bar oil are in their own crate too.
All four of my saws, use the same chain. Only difference is 16" vs. 18". I have options with swapping out bars/chains should I ever want to. Thanks for the kind question, though.
Bummer on the toasted top end Mike. I wonder if the motor sucked in a bunch of fine dust? It can and does happen. Either way it’s pretty awesome that you were able to swap it out with another local FHC member though.
More of a deal, including swapped powerboats. I know I need to get better at checking/cleaning air filters.
Be interesting to see what M2theB finds. Wonder if it was tuned a hair too lean. Long wide open throttle noodle can sometimes be similar to milling for me.
I actually had my 2150 start to leak air at those transfer cover/caps. I did seal them but didn’t use loctite on the screws, just smeared some motoseal. That didn’t work. I caught it pretty quick though.
