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New to Stihl saws
By: roccus Date: December 2, 2016, 11:08 am
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Hello all hoping I can get some input... I have had a couple of
saws a craftsman and a poulan they were ok saws but have both
worn out over the years I mostly cut dead standing trees and
laying on ground trees for fire wood for the wood stove. I had
bought a Stihl MS290 farm boss 20" bar saw and used it for a day
it is ok I like the power it has and ease of starting but it
just feels real heavy and large for my use.
Then I came across a package deal on 2 MS260 saws 1 of them 20"
bar runs great the other 16" bar has a blown top end. I ran the
260 with the 20" bar for a couple hours and it feels much better
to me lighter and less bulky than the 290 and with plenty of
power hower it is a bitch to pull the starter like it has unreal
compression not sure if this is normal for the 260 or not. I see
the pro model have decompression valves on them to make it
easier to pull the starter so that might be an option? Not sure
what to do with the blown 260 to keep for parts or put a new
topend on it to sell to recoup some of my money. I will sell the
290 for sure.
I see lots of top end kits on fleabay real cheap but usually you
get what you pay for.... who make a decent kit for these 260's
and is their much difference between the 44mm kit and the 44.7mm
kit?
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Re: New to Stihl saws
By: Majorpayne Date: December 2, 2016, 11:15 am
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Price a oem top end first.
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Re: New to Stihl saws
By: roccus Date: December 2, 2016, 11:19 am
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Looked around have not been able to find one and I have read
they go up around $300 that is way more than I would want to put
into the saw I don't think either saw is worth much more than
that
#Post#: 74694--------------------------------------------------
Re: New to Stihl saws
By: Chainsawrepair Date: December 2, 2016, 3:38 pm
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Re: New to Stihl saws
By: roccus Date: December 7, 2016, 10:12 am
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I looked into the Meteor top end kit for the MS260 and have been
told they were badly flawed and Meteor stopped shipping them...
guess this explains why they are not around NWP seems to be
getting decent reviews. I had an MS290 and did a carb muffler
mod on it... do these same mods work on the MS260? My saw has
the 2 adjustment carb on it but I have a parts saw that has the
WTE 3 adjustment carb on it thinking of putting that carb on my
user saw
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Re: New to Stihl saws
By: brettl Date: January 25, 2017, 3:36 pm
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I'm surprised to hear that about Meteor. I've heard good things
about them in the past. I've always heard Hyway is a crapshoot
and Golf are junk. NWP?, I don't know. Are you certain your
cylinder isn't salvageable? They sometimes are. The 260 is a
common saw. You may be able to find a decent used top end for
it.
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Re: New to Stihl saws
By: roccus Date: January 25, 2017, 3:48 pm
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I used the NWP top end kit and it works great from what I
understand meteor is the best out there except the 260 kit for
the 260 NWP is best from what I have found in my research I just
polished the ports up a bit did not alter them then did a
muffler carb mod and it woke the saw right up might do the
squish on it as well that is supposed to give even more power
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Re: New to Stihl saws
By: 3000 FPS Date: January 25, 2017, 9:17 pm
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Yep you can put it together without a base gasket to drop the
cylinder down and tighten the squish. Make sure you measure
the squish though before putting it all back together. Then let
us know how it runs and what you think.
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Re: New to Stihl saws
By: roccus Date: January 25, 2017, 10:07 pm
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Well I got a race with my neighbor and his husky 50cc 346xp next
spring his saw is stock with 18" bar I have a 16" bar on my 260
I know the huskies are supposed to be fast but want to see if I
can beat his new husky with my 25 year old 49cc stihl :) the
looser has to buy the steaks and beer for a cookout
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Re: New to Stihl saws
By: 3000 FPS Date: January 25, 2017, 10:33 pm
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You might have a tuff time with that. Advance the timing by a
couple of degrees and it will help increase the rpm's a little.
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