Chainsaw Repair

Thanks.  Once you get the engine out of the case and clean all the crud off that builds up around the engine................they're not hard to go further.  The case halves are sealed with a clear RTV type sealer that lets go pretty easily.  The remaining residue is hard to see and tedious to remove though. 

I made some shims to properly space the bearings out during assembly (per the Homelite shop manual).  Made mine out of some clear hard plastic from the packaging my compression tester came in.  Was about the right thickness.  You place the shims between the thrust washers and the crank shoulders, set everything in place in the cylinder half of the crankcase, carefully remove the shims without disturbing anything, and then install the other crankcase half.  I sealed it with Hondabond-4.  Same as Threebond 1194....