Chainsaw Repair

The Poulan Pro 260 is a non strato type design for the carburation.   I do not know if your wild thing is a strato saw or not.   One thing you can look at on your saw is does the carburetor have a top piece with a tube and then the bottom of the carb where it bolts on.   The reason I bring this up and that you may have to swap over the carburetor plus the intake.   I really do not know if the intake from a 260 will fit on a strato wild thing.

I believe there are some other guys on here that may have more insight in to this and they will eventually post some more info.

Yes The PP260 is a chromed cylinder with a plain piston.    I have a couple of them.  One I woods ported and modified the muffler on.  It is a good strong running saw.   As far as the bottom half of the crankcase fitting from a wild thing to a 260 I do not know since I have never taken one of the wild things apart.   If your going to get a PP 260 cylinder and piston look for something used with the bottom half of the crankcase with it.  Then just put new rings in it.   With some patients you could find something on ebay.   

As far as the Chromed cylinder goes I think it wears better for one and will have better compression.   That is just my opinion based on what experience I have had with the non chromed cylinders.

 Thanks fellas for the info. Just what I needed to know.
  Danny, even tho my saw is labeled for 40:1, you think I should run 32:1?  I've heard using too much oil is just as bad as not enough. I've got a  Craftsman 3.7 from 1983 that I've used Opti and another single mix oil in. It's labeled for 16:1 , but it runs great on modern 2 stroke saw oil.
   What do you guys think of the single ratio mix oils? My older Echo and Stihl trimmers work great on it also.
     Thanks again for the responses,

                                                      Chris
       

260 is chromed cylinder bare piston. I have thread on one shown here.

I had always wondered if the pp 262 was bare bore like the 2375. 

I run 32:1 but have no problems running 40:1 either. Either or IMO 32 or 40. Just stay away from that epa 50:1 IMO. JMO

We had a thread on this at one time that listed a bunch of the Poulan saws that came with a chrome cylinder or a bare cylinder.



 Which Poulan Pro chainsaws have plated cylinders?

 

I think it is a given that all the Poulan Pro yellow saws are going to have a chrome cylinder.  Where it gets confusing is the green saws.  Also this does not always apply to craftsman saws as some were labled 3.7 meaning 3700 and were actually 3800.
Poulan 1800    A reed valve
Poulan 2000    A reed valve
Poulan 2300    A reed valve
Poulan S25DA  C reed valve
Po Pro  205      C reed valve
Po Pro  260      C
Po Pro  285      C
Po Pro  295      C
Poulan 306A    C  reed valve
Po Pro  4620    C
Poulan 3300    A
Po Pro  305     C
Po Pro  325     C
Po Pro  330     C
Po Pro  335     C
Poul Pred 335  C
Poulan 3450    C
Poulan 3400   A
Poulan 3500   C
Po Pro  365    C
Po Pro  375    C
Poulan 3700   C
Poulan 3750   C
Poulan 3800   A
Po Pro  380    C
Po Pro  395    C
Poulan 4000   C
Poulan 4200   C  reed valve
Po Pro  445    C
Po Pro  475    C
Po Pro 5020   C
Po Pro 505     C
Poulan 5200   C  reed valve
Poulan 5400   C  reed valve
Poulan 6000   C 

C= Chrome   Cylinder
A=  Aluminum Cylinder