Chainsaw Repair

 The first gen. 201t had a lot of shortcomings IMHO.
Creating a factory "hop up kit" to remedy these issues and then charge top dollar for that kit was a slap in the face to loyal stihl consumers. 

Early 1990 Toyota 4x4 truck I had with the 3.0 v6 developed a head gasket leak at well over 150k. Took it to the dealer expecting to pay dearly for the repair and Toyota picked up the bill!  It was a know issue/recall item and regardless of miles and being the second owner they took care of it. 

Seems kinda weird they'd release the hop up kit for retrofit on older saws then incorporate those parts into the new saws. The poor low speed/long warm up period is a pain.  Grabbed one of my guys 201 last week to help remove an oak limb over a slate roof from the bucket truck and that saw was a pain. Granted the limb removal took time to rig and the saw never really got warm, it was annoying.

Now this might sound silly but I wonder if the 441 and the 201T would have had better performance if by some way they could have pre heated the fresh air partial transfer charge .Every one I ever ran did okay after it got plenty warmed up .Now that's a pain in the azz having to run the danged thing a couple minutes to get it to run right .

It's not a new idea at all .Caterpiller did it on the old pony start diesels .Ran the pony engine exhaust right through the diesel intake manifold .Warmed the air.Be kind of  tough to do on a chainsaw but I bet it could be done,just  for the fresh air part .Not the fuel /air part .

Al, the newest 201 is supposed to be much better, perhaps they  tweaked the advance/retard bit?  All of the T540 huskies I've demo'd over the Last year or so ran like crap until hot.  Just put together a ms200t for a friend and they one of Stihls all time best saws IMO.

Forgot about those.   I like they are moving ahead with this technology.

Husky has a TH and Oregon told me they had TH in the works when I tested their rear handle one out.