Husky 365 compression / pre buy inspection

[kgrant]

Any thing I should take a close look at on a Husky 365 before I buy it?

What should min compression be? What is the proper way to check compression? Full throttle? no throttle? choke on/off? hot? cold?

Any reason not to go with a 365? Going to be using it on my Lewis chainsaw winch and to back up my Husky 353.

Thanks guys!

 

[kgrant]

Well I bought it. It's a 365 Special. Has 143lbs of compression. Came with a 20" bar/3 chains, and a 28" bar/3 chains. An oregon file guide, a few files. 4 gallons of bar oil. A needle greaser, scrench, spark plug.

It could use a good cleaning, but I wouldn't say it has been abused.

Was a little hard to get started, but it had been sitting for 4 months, and it was 15 degrees. So I didn't expect it to fire right up.

Think $300 was too much?

 

[aandabooks]

Sounds like one heck of a deal. The bars and chains alone if not used up are easily $100 of the deal. 143 is great compression. Best thing is, if the piston ever gets fried, you can swap on a 372 top end for a couple hundred and still be ahead of a new 372 by a good margin.