montanaman
Gold Member
I did some service work on a Poulan Wild Thing. Customer has been called, but hasn't picked it up yet. Hope he doesn't stick me with it because I'd throw it away before I would sell it!! I even cut my labor charge down a lot out of guilt because I now know what a hunk of junk this thing is!
It all started with me selling a replacement chain for the saw. A day or two later, the saw comes back and the throttle is jammed, and I'm asked if I can look at it. Well the idle screw fell out of the carb and fell down the handle and jammed the throttle. Fix that and notice that the chain is climbing out of the bar groove. Look at the chain and notice the sprocket is so bad that the drive links on the chain are getting smashed by the sprocket, between the teeth. Now the chain is trying to climb out of the bar.
Track down the sprocket from Poulan and find out they want more for shipping than the part costs? I guess when you have a few dealers around, you have to handle your direct parts sales in a full list, high freight manner so the dealers don't get mad. Because it's a different sprocket than most Poulans, I can't get it through any of my usual sources, but I find it and buy it from ebay.
Get this junker back together and start it up to set the idle speed. Well right away I know why the idle screw fell out. There is absolutely no anti-vibration in this purple and green junker at all. I only ran it for a few minutes and for a few seconds at higher RPM to check the oiler and make sure the chain was tracking OK and my hands were almost asleep!
I hope this guy shows up and pays his bill soon!!
It all started with me selling a replacement chain for the saw. A day or two later, the saw comes back and the throttle is jammed, and I'm asked if I can look at it. Well the idle screw fell out of the carb and fell down the handle and jammed the throttle. Fix that and notice that the chain is climbing out of the bar groove. Look at the chain and notice the sprocket is so bad that the drive links on the chain are getting smashed by the sprocket, between the teeth. Now the chain is trying to climb out of the bar.
Track down the sprocket from Poulan and find out they want more for shipping than the part costs? I guess when you have a few dealers around, you have to handle your direct parts sales in a full list, high freight manner so the dealers don't get mad. Because it's a different sprocket than most Poulans, I can't get it through any of my usual sources, but I find it and buy it from ebay.
Get this junker back together and start it up to set the idle speed. Well right away I know why the idle screw fell out. There is absolutely no anti-vibration in this purple and green junker at all. I only ran it for a few minutes and for a few seconds at higher RPM to check the oiler and make sure the chain was tracking OK and my hands were almost asleep!
I hope this guy shows up and pays his bill soon!!