Did Your Homelite Super XL Chainsaw Seize While Cutting? It May Not Be Internal Engine Damage!!

Wow i was waiting for the drill to fall from its perch for a while there.... then you grabbed that condenser and i thought you got jolted! Lol

Lol when the drill fell I thought the condenser lit you up lol

Everytime I go pick up a new saw for my collection and the guy who is selling it to me wants to show me that it turns over, I tell him don't worry about it!I would rather you not do that. And hear is why I say that! I have seen a pattern over and over again when I purchase these saws! Almost every one of the old saws i get my hands on have a brand new carburator on it! This is what I have figured out. When the chainsaw stopped working for the old boy who owned it, he tried to get it to run again by purchasing a new carburator to make it run again. But that was not the problem! The problem is that he was cutting with a dull chain and when you do that very many times it makes sawdust enstead of chips or shavings if real sharp! But the cooling fins on the flywheel are sucking that air borne particals of fine sawdust inside the saw plugging it up and covering the pick up on the coil with oil soaked sawdust and finally it can't zap a spark across the air gap! He gets frustrated with it after buying a carburator and it didn't work so he through it under his work bench for the next God only knows where things like screws fall and happen to find themselves inside the pull starter cover and the magnet on the flywheel grabs that bolt or screw and the next time someone decides to try to get it to fire up it gets lodged against the case and the flywheel usually looses a tooth or it gets stuck and won't allow the engine to turn all the way around! Sound about right too you? 😋

Ohhh I figured for sure it was going to be the infamous 3 tank bolts that backed out and lock up the flywheel.

My Dad used the SXLs in his tree service back in the late 80s/early 90s and had probably a dozen of them sitting around that locked up. They all sat in an old shed for years until the roof finally gave up and everything got soaked for years. When I started to tinker with these saws, I asked him if I get some of them to screw around with, but he had already taken them all to the dump. Sure would have been interesting to see how many were truly locked up and how many had something like this or that screw backed out. He did run these saws hard. Thanks for the video!

Wow in my 40 years of saws that's a first for that particular issue. Like you said the screw backing out yes but not that one!

Thanks, Leon. The weird ones make the best videos. At least with my Homelites and Macs its always something bent, stripped, ripped.. never a "just bolt it on/off" so these videos make me feel less alone.

Why don't you take that pulley puller took to a machine shop and let the draw a print and sell them to those of us that are machinist and would like to make one? Please let me know if you ever decide to do this! Thanks Leon!

Interesting! Haven't seen that yet, but I did have a guy give me a locked low hour SXL, that had that screw backed out.

The same thing happened to my newly rebuilt pro mac 700,flywheel nut came loose and sheared the keyway and chipped part of the race on the crank thankgod for Jb weld not happy using for that application but I didn't exactly have another crank, and it was during heat cycling!

Where are you located mate? Ive got a bunch of homelites in decent shape Ps im in Oregon too, in the valley.

is that screen needed on the flywheel?

Hey Leon, Thinking about giving up on my grandfathers old super xl. Runs okay sometimes and other times can’t get it to start. Curious what shipping method you use for saws and how much it usually costs to ship one. Thanks for your help. Great video as always

Poor saw was abused

Hi leon did that pro mac gromit end up with that other buyer ? as i still have his homelite carb repair kit . Simon coulter Brisbane Australia .