A flywheel serves four main purposes (in most vehicles): It provides mass for rotational inertia to keep the engine in motion It is specifically weighted to provide balance for the crankshaft It
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Flywheel nuts are most commonly left hand thread. Lets say a saw did have a right hand thread nut,then the same scenario would be true, as soon as that flywheel even slightly loosens the
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The darn thing has no spark. I figured a bad coil, but much to my surprise, if I swapped a different flywheel in, the saw had spark. The flywheel has a broken fin that did some damage to the
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Member @L34 adapted "universal coil" to mount on early 064 cases that use Bosch/"dogleg coil", 1122 400 1201A flywheel. Don''t have link to thread, pic shows early 064 case
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QUESTION - I have a flywheel 1203/1204 with a single keyway, when I line up the magnets with a dual keyway 1203 flywheel the single keyway lines up with the 1:00 keyway rather
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This previous question explains what a flywheel does and why it is needed. That explanation means that the flywheel needs a certain amount of mass to do its job. However, an
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Rotate the flywheel and remove the business card. Give the flywheel at least one full rotation to make sure there is no contact with the coil and you have a slight visible gap when the
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The flywheel in the pic looks like the "new" stihl type. 341/361? The correct tool uses the two threaded holes either side of the flywheel nut. Part number 5910 890 4504 for;
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Working on a neighbors Stihl MS462C that got hit by a piece of equipment and suffered some damage. Think the cracks in the far edges of the crankcase are not bad enough to replace the
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I have a stihl 064 I think the coil is going out. I pulled the flywheel today and its a 1122 400 1204 the coil is the prufrex 1122 400 1303. I know this was talked about a few months ago but
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