Good old chainsaws wanted

[xyz123]

I had a 4000. Nice saws...........

 

[dfkrug]

I had a 4000. Nice saws...........

That saw has rings that are only 0.65mm thick. Thinnest I have ever seen.

I was surprised to see no chain brake on a saw made this recently (1987). Is that
common, in your experience? Most saws I see going back to the very early 80s had
chain brakes.

 

[crazyal]

I've got a couple that I keep wanting to put on Craig's list for free but never got around to it. I thought the might look cool on the walls of my garage but with all the stuff I have hanging up already you wouldn't notice the saws.

 

[ShearHeadMS]

Well, iv been rebuilding my hit and miss engines, not to mention some major equipment issues. So no chainsaws for a while for me

 

[ruby2011]

Hey guys if anybody has any old homelite, poulan, or husky saws for sale please PM me, looking for old saws with or with out bow bars, running or may need work, one I'm really looking for are homelite c72, and bigger, large size poulan a or mccoulough saws too, thanks!!

hi have a homelite c52 in perfect working order if you would be interested thanks.

 

[Bluegill2]

That saw has rings that are only 0.65mm thick. Thinnest I have ever seen.

I was surprised to see no chain brake on a saw made this recently (1987). Is that
common, in your experience? Most saws I see going back to the very early 80s had
chain brakes.

I have a Poulan 3400 that has no chain brake, bought new in 1988. Just sold a good running 245A w/no brake. These old Poulans are great saws, but I no longer use them...

 

[xyz123]

That saw has rings that are only 0.65mm thick. Thinnest I have ever seen.

I was surprised to see no chain brake on a saw made this recently (1987). Is that
common, in your experience? Most saws I see going back to the very early 80s had
chain brakes.

I think I had some poulans dated 90's to early 200? with only hand guards. Would have to check some to make sure.

2 sets of NOS poulan 4000 rings.

 

[dfkrug]

Sold my Poulan 4000 to a friend last fall. After using it for a few hours, it died.

Turns out, the spark plug insulator failed, and pieces of the ceramic broke off
inside the cylinder. I never had this happen before.

Knowing that there are no new OEM or aftermarket pistons/jugs out there,
I figured the saw was junk. After opening it up and removing the embedded
ceramic pieces, I reassembled it and it now runs great again.

The top of the piston looked like a moonscape, but there was no damage
to the cylinder walls or the rings.

 

[toomuchjunk]

I have a Poulan 4000 I just picked up recently. Haven't even had a chance to give it a go yet. It's in line for servicing and testing.

 

[dfkrug]

I have a Poulan 4000 I just picked up recently. Haven't even had a chance to give it a
go yet.

I kinda miss that old Poulan 4000 right now as I am cutting up 4 large douglas firs I just had felled. It's 65cc pulled
a 24" bar no problem, while my Husky 55cc saw struggles with a 2-footer. It was hard to get used to the manual-only
oiler, however.

Here is another old Poulan that I have been using, after a full rebuild. This one is a 73 model S25 tophandle, with
2 rings and points ignition. I see why pros loved these 40+ years ago. It is old enough to have a Tillotson carb.

 

[toomuchjunk]

The Poulan 4000 has an automatic oiler. It does have a manual oiler as well for additional oil in certain applications but it wasn't intended to do all the oiling. Perhaps the auto portion of your oiler wasn't working?

 

[dfkrug]

The Poulan 4000 has an automatic oiler. It does have a manual oiler as
well for additional oil in certain applications but it wasn't intended to do all the oiling. Perhaps the auto
portion of your oiler wasn't working?

I do not recall seeing an auto oiler on the 4000, but it may have had a diaphragm auto oiler that
was not working well. It did not have a worm-drive auto-oiler like modern saws have; I
would have remembered that.

The S25 above has a dual oiler (auto + manual) and the auto-oiler was definitely weak,
due to a stiff old diaphragm. That part is not available any more, so the manual oiler is all you
have. I have other old saws with weak auto-oilers and no manual backup. These also
used diaphragms and the needed part is not available.

 

[xyz123]

4000 has auto oiler with manual too. I had one.

 

[xyz123]

Found a pic of 3400 - 4000 auto setup with manual.

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