Your skill and dedication is amazing Walt. Definitely something I aspire to.

For me there’s kind of a special attachment to a tool that has more than proven its worth....and you’re confident it will do whatever job you have it mind for it today. I bought a 22 ounce Estwing hammer when I was 19. Probably one of the first tools I ever purchased with my own money. I was working construction over summers. Still have it, and it not only did paying work back then, but it’s been part of nearly every home improvement project over the last 20 years. I thought I’d lost it a few weeks back and it ate at me. It had been left outside leaning on a tree where I’m building the kids a tree house. Have the DeWalt version of that little 1/4 drive impact. Not as time proven as the Estwing, but sure is handy and dang does it punch above its weight. I’ve used it for things well beyond it’s designed intent.

O have a 22T log Splitter too. Amazing machine to split wood. 4stroke motor with 6.5hp. it rocks. Nice vídeo there.

I took those cross sections out of my 50mm 372 clone but left them in just as they enter the bore (SX82) and opened the ports right up without changing the port timing, deleted the base gasket going from around 50thou to 25 thou, muffler mod too with an 8T sprocket and boy didn't that wake it up omg!

Great video Walt! I did a 365 OE build very similar to the one in the video last winter. After watching a vodeo where you guys where describing mods that cand be easily done I decided to try it for myself but on a 365. I did the mod to the transfers like you do, set squish at 20 thousands, raised the intake skirt about 30 thousands and did a muffler mod. Been flogging that saw since winter and I will say its got more power then stock and has lasted so far. I don't have a 372 OE to compare it to but in bigger hard wood it out cuts my modded 562 but wont hang with a strong 044 that I built. I'll be interested in hearing your thoughs in the future about wether your 365 is a success or not and or wether its close to a 372 or not?

Ive got the same splitter as you ,such a great reliable machine , i see its missing a tire did it go flat ?

I know this a 3 weeks old but it looked like a cranked case by the buckin spike but could have been casing mold line

@afleetcommand

4 жыл бұрын

No crack, goofy AM cases though.

Hi Walt...thanks for sharing this video, the 48mm build may last longer now,just wondering did you find a 365 carb or use the xt carb from the 52mm.Also enjoyed the 550 footage,thats a neat flywheel removal tool and intake plugs ,thing is u only need to purchase these once. For you it makes sense due to the volume of saws you get....so good bye for now..

@afleetcommand

4 жыл бұрын

It has the Aftermarket Huztl cases, a continuation of field testing those as the one set failed, a crank in another set failed as documented earlier ( replaced with an OEM crank and the Madsen JPS saw is built around it, the first JPS ). This is more in the same series with the field testing of the Hyway cylinder that ALSO failed. I used a muffle modded Huztl muffler, but the Crank, Carb, and related parts are OEM from a 372 X-Torq. The OTHER theme of these last few "Junk Pile" video's is making use of 372 X-Torq bones. Basically the premise being building ( maybe Phoenix saws??) useful saws from the bones of dead 372's using Aftermarket parts to keep the cost in line with a Used option, vs just throwing out that stuff as has been typically done. Getting confusing right? Maybe I should do an addendum to quantify the score on this stuff so far.

Nice.😆

Hello, Walt! How many kg have your hummer?

What inside diameter is the tubing you used for the muffler?

@afleetcommand

4 жыл бұрын

depends. if I leave the stock opening......1/2 to 5/8. If its closed or I start with a Huztl Muffler 3/4inch even 1inch from time to time depending on what's done up stream

@afleetcommand

4 жыл бұрын

Shoot for approx. 80 percent x-sectional area of exhaust port...plus or minus a bit. Not really that critical.

@rncboy2

4 жыл бұрын

For some reason I've always thought that the tube can be half the size of port or smaller didnt think something slightly bigger then half would be able to work. I'm still thinking .6380 is slightly to big. The only thing I have that's close to half inch is .5657 I.D. but its galvanized an I'd prefer mild steel. It is for a 029 with a 039 49mm cylinder have yet to see someone do a port muffler for a stihl 029 039 ms290 ms390 because of the mufflers being crimped together. I've split plenty of mufflers and once you figure it out its cake walk to get them apart. The existing holes will be welded closed, this is definitely something I've not seen done by others so if I'm the first then so be it 😎 she is getting a couple other things to so that the ported muffler will help instead of hurt.

That's your fuel pump going out there sir!

@afleetcommand

4 жыл бұрын

And where are pump parts like those little "vanes" to be had? Ebay doesn't or maybe I don't know what "Text" string to search with...

@patrickprafke4894

4 жыл бұрын

@@afleetcommand what's the make and modle number? Does it have a serial tag?

Personally, I do not think the Husqvarna cylinders are as rugged as a similar stihl. I had a 125B husqvarna blower that I had for over three years. I ran the crap out of it but I fed it good gas and I had it set up pretty rich, but after three years it started to drop off in performance, so I bought a new one. I could readily tell the difference between the two blowers, afterwards, so I gave it to my oldest daughter and kept the new one. I never had a problem starting my first 125B, but it just tailed off in velocity of the air moving through the saw. My guess was the plating in the cylinder was getting worn off. In contrast I had given my youngest daughter a BG56CE Stihl blower when I bought the first 125B. It is still running fine and seems to have more performance, now, than when I gave it to her. You ask me why I do not build a husky. It is simple, I do not think they are built to the same standards as a Stihl, Chinese or not.

@afleetcommand

4 жыл бұрын

OF course that is supported by this video because the Aftermarket Hyway cylinder plating failed is my guess on how you process data . :) In my experience it has more to do with who actually manufactured that cylinder. A Mahle Husqvarna or Stihl cylinder will out last a cylinder from any other source. When Stihl began to take their Cylinder casting in house they frankly were junk. And when Husqvarna started the Chinese sources cylinders on the 550's they to were less reliable than the Mahle cylinder based 562's. And the other factor is saw model therefor design. Husqvarna's 240s are complete crap. But the OE 372 and earlier 200 series saw cylinders last longer than the rest of the saw....of course Mahle's. Same with the early Stihl's with Mahle cylinders like the 038 thru 066's...excellent designs, love them. I've has a rash of MS362 and 461 cylinders I've had to replace. Similar frequency as the PTO side bearings on XT 372's....so as I said I completely dissagree with your premise on this one...:)

@spike6020

4 жыл бұрын

Unless you tested compression or viewed the cylinder, then assuming the cylinder is the issue is sloppy diagnostic work. Even if the compression is low, how about the piston ring vs the cylinder? What typically does happen on 125B's is the intake block begins to loosen and the blower runs like crap. And it is a bear of a job to get in there and correct it too. Not a very good design IMO. But really John, to judge all Husky cylinders as not rugged based on a cheap handheld blower example is a rather unrealistic stretch.