it's Pete from Cheap Homesteading and in the garage this morning and I'm working on
the Johnson red 520 SB friend of mine dropped it off the main issue with the
saw is that it'll run for a bit and then shut off and then run for a bit and then
shut off we will get to that problem but meanwhile we broke the pull cord on it
and pull car it's kind of in bad shape I'll show you here's the pole cord you
can see that at eight through the plastic here the pull cord is pulling it
this way which is okay but it ate through this little metal grommet that
goes into the plastic so it keeps the pull cord from eating into the plastic
hole and it ate right through it so I made a sharp edge and then I started
cutting into the cord and then it cut the cord so if we just fixed it you
would have the same problem so we are going to try to fix this take the air
cleaner off the filter I just found out that john surratt is just a cheaper
version of a husky more economical let's put it that way but most of the engine
parts and everything is all the same it's just a lot of it's just cosmetic
differences so I'm thinking man if it's only cosmetic differences is probably
not that bad of a saw to get I am a huge fan of husky stuff I pre will only run
them I do own 1 Ms 250 but I really do like running my husky 55 so they go a
long long time and they're very reliable so I am pretty happy with them it's not
like I need any more sauce that's all I can see I have plenty plenty of saws out
there more than I can ever use but if I ever needed a good reliable saw
I'm sure a John surrett would be a good option okay so now we are going to
remove the cover the reason I Chuck the top cover off versus one little tab that
goes on there and so while I screw is the mounting screw for your kickback
handle still going into that cover there we go
covers off gonna get rag I don't feel like starting my compressor right now
I'll blow it in before it I'm gonna remove there's a screw great with Center
we're gonna remove that when you remove this so in here you can see there's a
little bit of a grommet steel bushing that goes in and I was trying to get it
out but I couldn't and I I can see why it is a huge there's a huge lip on it so
it must come in from this side I dug through all my stuff and I found a
little bit of a compression fitting like a thin brass
type pipe and I slid it in and already had a taper on one side and then I just
tried to pound down the other side so we will stay in I'll show ya you know I
don't know what to think of this I think I should just went and bought the cover
but the covers hard to find and honestly this isn't very
pretty but this should last probably the rest of the life of this saw anyways so
what I did was see there's your there's your flare I slid it up in I forgot the
video this so I put the inside on here and then I tap down on it so I didn't
wreck the spot where the cord goes in and I pounded down line it doesn't as I
say it doesn't look that pretty and if this cover was more accessible for me I
was just replaced it but it's all tapped in pounded I'm gonna file just so
there's no burrs on the inside give it a little bit of a light sanding and then
we're gonna reassemble it this is the same kind of piece I used to fix my pull
cord eyelet it's just out of the plumbing department I believe I don't
know what the name of it is and I just cut the end off and then I flared the
other side so it won't fall out you want to blow it all
till the whole cover is clean you put your spring back in make sure that the
spring does not fall out of this little holder this little plastic holder if it
does it'll the big long piece of spring and that that is a real pain to put back
in so you're gonna slide this back in this little groove
can be a bit of a pain kiss there you go you got your spring in no okay so we're
gonna unwind the old chord we're gonna pull on here okay there you go
this is the pull cord that was in it this is the pull cord that I have this
is more the size of what you have for this size chainsaw so the thicker the
cord the less that can fit on the reel too so that doesn't help there's two
ways you can tie a knot and use some contact cement on the knot or you can
heat it up and I use heat it up because every time I go to look for contact
cement I don't have it so I just kind of melt the knot ever so gently and we're
gonna tighten up the end here
so what you need to do is fish it in through this hole and I kind of twist it
and push and then normally it'll just go through sometimes you gotta try to give
it a little bit of help okay so I'm gonna use the screwdriver I'm gonna give
it a little bit of a shelf and I'm gonna fish there you go
okay so now you're gonna give it a good tug to make sure that that knot is not
gonna slip it shouldn't slip because you've I heated up the knot so it'll
kind of glues the knot together so we get your cover and yet your pull cord so
you see this is the direction that it's got to roll it so you roll up your
string always start off with too much string it's nothing worse than a pull
cord that's too short on chainsaw so what we're gonna do is we're gonna slide
this through here there's the notch in the pull cord and here is the end of the
spring and that's got to be lined up when you shove this in which is easier
said than done sometimes and you hold on it see how I think it is it returns it
okay so then you give it a little bit of test you pull it and I think it is
because it returns so you get your screw and we'll fasten that down
give it a few tries and make sure that it works good and then retracts nice I
save this from the scrap heap okay so I have an old pull cord head here and the
one thing about this is important that you want to make sure you pull the cord
enough through that when you tie it there's tensions for when it returns
nothing worse then when you have your pull cord and the things hanging down
all the time I hate that that just looks bad so the way you can fix that is you
pull on it you pull on it and tie the knot a little bit further back just so
there's a little more tension on the pull cord handle and then you pull on
the knot hard and we're gonna eat that one up too that's awkward see you kind
of heat up the knot again not too much to burn the threads totally but enough
to squeeze the knot together it's nylon so it heats up and that kind of gets a
little tacky I find was a great pair of scissors
okay so we're going to heat up the very end again so it won't fray back and
squish it and then we just kind of tuck it in so there you go
your Colcord is fixed and we are ready to go okay so we have the chain saw
there was two problems the pull cord is broken and the other one it would run
for 20 minutes and then it would shut off and not restart so what I'm gonna do
is before we fix the restart problem I'm gonna blow it out we're gonna reassemble
it and I'm gonna try to run it and see what I think it is so we're gonna blow
off the saw maker all the fins are blown out nice you get your pull cord cover
you set it down you give it a little bit of a tug and it lines up the cogs and
your flywheel you got longer screws and shorter screws there's two short ones
here and a short one here the long one goes through here and the rest hold down
the top cover
okay so one thing I did see it looked like this hose got pinched between here
when it was tightened down and I think the hose is just too long I am gonna fix
this right now now we're just gonna clip it a little shorter so it doesn't have
that extra space to get caught on stuff and make sure your little chakram it
goes in place okay so I'll just tighten down the cover we'll put the air filter
in and we'll give this thing a track okay so switches the lawn chokes out see
what happens
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so there you go it's all fixed up and ready to go you guys have a good