Stihl MS250 chainsaw service

[stan33]

Last autumn I did my own service on the saw but I have been wondering if I might have missed something. I did once take it to a Stihl dealer for a service but it wasn't cheap.
Can anyone give me a list of things that Stihl would probably do in a routine service, so that I can be sure I am not missing something when I do the service.
Thanks

 

[Bocephous]

Air filter, fuel filter, plug. Make sure the screen on the muffler is clean. That's about it.

 

[Coyote machine]

Don't know what you Aussies have for fuel, so if you have Ethanol then drain all the fuel from the tank and run some NON-Ethanol fuel through the saw, with Marine Stabil mix, and the highest octane fuel you can buy.
Use compressed air to blow out the in fuel tank filter backwards, to clear it out before storage.
Blow out the chips and gunk where the chain enters the sprocket, and clean the bar grooves. Rotate the bar so the top becomes the bottom. Clean the air filter by blowing it out backwards to remove any debris.
That should cover it.

 

[stan33]

Thanks guys.
I don't think we have ethanol.
The saw will be coming out of storage, as autumn (fall) starts in a few weeks, though it was 93F today.

 

[davesl708]

Thanks guys.
I don't think we have ethanol.
The saw will be coming out of storage, as autumn (fall) starts in a few weeks, though it was 93F today.

Send some of that warmth up here.
Lucky you to not have ethanol shoved up your tailpipe.

 

[stan33]

Send some of that warmth up here.
Lucky you to not have ethanol shoved up your tailpipe.

Don't worry we get shafted by the state gov.... taxes and charges on everything they can think of!
Will send warmth express post.....I'm over it for this year. Trying to get into the metal shop all summer to paint n restore tractor and it's just too hot in there a lot of the time.

 

[turnkey4099]

And, of course, sharpen the chain. I ran my saws dry last fall, put them away, grabbed the MS210 this morning to help on clearing brush. And 20 miles later discovered I hadn't sharpened the chain.

Harry K

 

[Alien]

We do have Ethanol, that is what E10 is but I won't touch it.

Aldis had some chain sharpeners for sale for $30 a while back so I bought one. It works great. My saws never cut better.

 

[stan33]

We do have Ethanol, that is what E10 is but I won't touch it.

Aldis had some chain sharpeners for sale for $30 a while back so I bought one. It works great. My saws never cut better.

Yeah we don't have the E10 in my corner of Oz. I've only ever seen it at some fancy pants city servo's.
With us, ethanol mix (the max by law is 10%) is a choice, by the sounds of it, they don'tget to choose over there..

 

[MinnesotaEric]

FWIW, I run the Stihl synthetic 2-stroke oil mixed at 50:1 with non-ethanol fuel in all my 2-stroke equipment. Stihl's synthetic oil runs clean wether in Stihl, Echo, RedMax or Toro.