My log load arrived the other day and I got all excited. Got my gas all mixed up, filled up my bar oil. and started the saw. I made about 20 cuts when she stalled out, and that was the end of it hasn't started again.
The saw is a 041 AV, when it stalled out I checked the kill switch to see if I bumped it and almost burned my finger it was so hot. Obviously let the saw cool off (and me too ) for a few days. When I went back out I noticed one of the vaccuum lines from the carb to the front of the saw was off. I reattched that and nothing. Took it to my local Stihl dealer and we replaced that line and a new air filter, and spark plug. I am getting spark, checked by first grounding plug to side of saw and pulling over, then with it in the saw and a plug tester. Compression test shows it pulling 90 lbs of compresson. When investigating further noticed that muffler had litterally come off, I put that back on and still nothing.
I have put gas in the carb, directly into the cylinder through plug hole and even tried either in both of these ways and still wont pop. It has nothing going on.
The saw is sitting on my buddy's work bench now, waiting, looks like today we are going to try to get to the coil. our thoughts are that the coil is not putting out a strong enough spark consistantly. thinking it could have gotten fried when it got hot. The other option is that the engine is just worn out, and rings and etc are shot, but if so, then not thinking it would pull 90 lbs of compression.
When I was cutting with it, it smoked like a mother, I just figured it was the gas/oil mix and it would clear, and the casing temp would make sense from the muffler being off, inside the machine and dangling there. If it couldn't vent out through the muffler it was venting inside the casing in turn heating that up.
Before I tear the saw up anymore any suggestions would be appreciated, thank you
The saw is a 041 AV, when it stalled out I checked the kill switch to see if I bumped it and almost burned my finger it was so hot. Obviously let the saw cool off (and me too ) for a few days. When I went back out I noticed one of the vaccuum lines from the carb to the front of the saw was off. I reattched that and nothing. Took it to my local Stihl dealer and we replaced that line and a new air filter, and spark plug. I am getting spark, checked by first grounding plug to side of saw and pulling over, then with it in the saw and a plug tester. Compression test shows it pulling 90 lbs of compresson. When investigating further noticed that muffler had litterally come off, I put that back on and still nothing.
I have put gas in the carb, directly into the cylinder through plug hole and even tried either in both of these ways and still wont pop. It has nothing going on.
The saw is sitting on my buddy's work bench now, waiting, looks like today we are going to try to get to the coil. our thoughts are that the coil is not putting out a strong enough spark consistantly. thinking it could have gotten fried when it got hot. The other option is that the engine is just worn out, and rings and etc are shot, but if so, then not thinking it would pull 90 lbs of compression.
When I was cutting with it, it smoked like a mother, I just figured it was the gas/oil mix and it would clear, and the casing temp would make sense from the muffler being off, inside the machine and dangling there. If it couldn't vent out through the muffler it was venting inside the casing in turn heating that up.
Before I tear the saw up anymore any suggestions would be appreciated, thank you
