Chainsaw hard to start

[Scootertrash]

If it was the refurb deal it's the 435

Mine was finicky for a bit, like it would run out of fuel, then it would start hard, run for a bit, rinse, repeat. Looking in the fuel tank it looked like the fuel line wasn't sitting in the fuel all the time, like it got deformed during manufacturing or something and was missing the in tank filter. I slipped a brass nut on the line to weight it down and installed the filter, but still the same symptoms. Pulled it apart last winter went thru the carb (it was clean) put everything back together and it's worked fine ever since. Never really saw anything wrong other than the line and missing filter

Nice little saw, gives me a break from my 460 with the 24" bar.

I also have an older 55 my dad gave me but the carb bolts stripped out of plastic carb flange, leaned out and toasted the motor, It'll get rebuilt tho. One of these days.........

[hoosierlogger]

Poulan=pulling your ass off

[bkm]

Poulan=pulling your ass off

I call them keep on a pullin

[Thorpe]

I love my husky... needed a tiny bit of tuning when brand new, but now it starts 2nd pull always, and runs tits!

[hoosierlogger]

Stihl pays my bills.

[RIDE-RED 250r]

I have a stock 372... Am I missing out??? What is an unlimited coil? More rpm?

Yes, unlimited RPM..as far as the coil is concerned anyway...

Husky started putting limited (blue) coils in their saws a few years back. Most of the blue coil saws are limited to 13,300 rpm, the 346xp was limited at 14,100. The old coils (black) are unlimited. Guys that want to hop up their saws with porting, timing, and compression mods like the unlimited coils because what's the sense in building a saw that is mechanically capable of spooling 14.6K (like my 372XPW now does) if the limiter is stopping you at 13.1K.

Point of interest: All the the 300 series XP's and most 300 series non-Xp's share the same coil from the 346 all the way up to a 390. The black coil in my 372XPW is out of an older 359. If you can't find or don't want to run a black unlimited coil, alot of guys like the blue 346xp coils as they have a higher limit than all of the others at 14.1K.

Some people scoff at modding saws, but I enjoy the hell out of it. I did ALL of the work porting and modding my 372 and all said and done it is a beast. Next overhaul and mod project is a blown up 394XP I recently bartered my services for. I have learned a ton throughout the process, still tons more to learn though. But I have learned enough that I think I will be looking at porting my first 250r cylinder not too far down the road.

Fabs: Although I prefer my 372 over the 576 in that size, the 576 really is a good saw. Husky had alot of issues with their earlier 575 model and they made enough changes to address those issues that they changed the model to the 576. The 576 has proven to be a much better saw than the 575 was. The whole saw was an all new design with strato ports to keep emissions down, but the biggest issue the 575 suffered was with crank bearings that were very failure prone. Is your 576 an Autotune model??

[RIDE-RED 250r]

If it was the refurb deal it's the 435

Mine was finicky for a bit, like it would run out of fuel, then it would start hard, run for a bit, rinse, repeat. Looking in the fuel tank it looked like the fuel line wasn't sitting in the fuel all the time, like it got deformed during manufacturing or something and was missing the in tank filter. I slipped a brass nut on the line to weight it down and installed the filter, but still the same symptoms. Pulled it apart last winter went thru the carb (it was clean) put everything back together and it's worked fine ever since. Never really saw anything wrong other than the line and missing filter

Nice little saw, gives me a break from my 460 with the 24" bar.

I also have an older 55 my dad gave me but the carb bolts stripped out of plastic carb flange, leaned out and toasted the motor, It'll get rebuilt tho. One of these days.........

Get it done!! Saws are remarkably easy and compared to trikes VERY inexpensive to rebuild!