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Re: stihl 040
« Reply #10 on: December 11, 2013, 04:03:29 pm »
3-4 days of spraying and soaking with PB blaster did the trick.  The rings must have been holding it to the cylinder wall.

Wooooohoooooo she is free and turning through.

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« Reply #11 on: December 11, 2013, 04:05:25 pm »
3-4 days of spraying and soaking with PB blaster did the trick.  The rings must have been holding it to the cylinder wall.

Wooooohoooooo she is free and turning through.

Cool!  Patience pays off.  I've seen cylinders with chrome peeled off when the piston was forced into motion too early (or the rings were just too damn rusted/stuck into the plating).

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Re: stihl 040
« Reply #12 on: December 11, 2013, 07:23:45 pm »

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Re: stihl 040
« Reply #13 on: December 12, 2013, 01:34:27 am »
It's alive!!!

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Re: stihl 040
« Reply #14 on: December 12, 2013, 01:36:00 am »
Clicked on the video and got a "enabling is disabled.......watch on youtube" message.

Was able to right-click on the video, copy the URL, and then paste in in another tab's address bar to watch it on youtube.

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Re: stihl 040
« Reply #15 on: December 12, 2013, 03:29:40 am »
I just left clicked on "watch on You Tube" and it came up in a new tab but in you tube.
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Re: stihl 040
« Reply #16 on: December 12, 2013, 12:56:10 pm »
No not the one I have Aaron.   

Man if youtube starts doing that crap with all tube videos I'll find something else.  Just a video of a 040 from abroad I think.  Not real impressed with one cutting in the video. Guess it was good for 66-67?

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Re: stihl 040
« Reply #17 on: December 12, 2013, 01:05:24 pm »
No not the one I have Aaron.   

Man if youtube starts doing that crap with all tube videos I'll find something else.  Just a video of a 040 from abroad I think.  Not real impressed with one cutting in the video. Guess it was good for 66-67?

I have an SXL-AO and a Poulan 306A (both bone stock) that would hand that 040 it's ass.  The 53cc 10-10A's that I've owned would too.

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Re: stihl 040
« Reply #18 on: December 12, 2013, 01:48:17 pm »
I agree.  Not sure either.  Seen that bragging more than a few times on AS.  One fellow wrote a 1/2 page post about how he worked for a Stihl dealer in the 1970's.  Went on and on about how the 040/041 series put all the 10-10's, SXL's, and the like out to pasture.  Said his dealer had a basement full of those saws as trade-ins for the all powerful 041's.  Said that it was smooth and poweful, while the 'old American' saws vibrated your hands and themselves to death.  Yeah right buddy.

To be fair, the saw in the video is the smallest displacement of the series, and is running a lousy chain.  Still, all the saws those guys crap on (SXL, 10-10, etc) are the same displacement or smaller than the original 040.  The larger of the 041 saws are strong runners................but not any stronger than a good running PM700, 7-10A, 245A, 3700, or 4000 (and it's heavier than all of them).....................and that Stihl series absolutely shakes themselves apart.  The vibration damping on the AV versions isn't anything to write home about either.

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Kevin did I somehow delete your last post?  It was there when I clicked 'quote' and started typing, but it's gone now.  Thought it was strange that I didn't have your post quoted in the top of my post here (despite having clicked 'quote').......

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Re: stihl 040
« Reply #19 on: December 12, 2013, 02:07:43 pm »
Sorry Aaron I deleted my post before your last post with a wrong click to modify.  :-[  Least it was my post and not a good one with info by others.

 

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