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The muffler was also further changed by removing the internal baffle box. The muffler is now virtually identical to the ones fitted to early '90s 066s.
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After this set of mods the saw was run at the AS WV GTG at wvlogger's place. The saw ran fairly strong on its first tank of fuel, held decent revs in the cut, and pulled the 8 pin OK with the 25" bar buried. When I arrived home I checked the compression. It topped out at 167 psi.
The next step was to square the cylinder. I turned a mandrel from 2.375OD-1.5ID DOM tubing. The OD was set to 2.125" which allowed a tight slip fit of the cylinder. The face of the mandrel was cut at a 7° angle, .75° steeper than the 7.75° stock squish angle that I measured as best I could. This would allow me to true the squish band and set a precise squish. I mounted the cylinder on the mandrel, then machined a center in the top of the head. Once that was done I faced .010" from the base of the cylinder. This made sure that the bore and base were perendicular to each other, though the stock runout was no more than .001". Sorry for the blurry video, dirty iPhone lens.
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After that was done, The work was removed from the lathe and a piece of self-adhesive sandpaper applied to the face of the mandrel. A measurement was made from base to squish band, then the mandrel inserted in the bore. Rotating the mandrel by hand allowed the squish band to be trued, and a precision squish to be set.
Unfortunately during this process I scratched the intake side of the liner with a diagonal score. I should have cleaned the swarf out more often. The fact that I have less than $40.00 in the cylinder makes it hurt a little less. I am not sure how much this has hurt the top end, but the saw is now making over 170 psi of compression. Next, I reassembled the saw and checked the squish again. This time I measured .019" at all four corners. This is the result I was looking for. Now the base, bore, crown, and squish band are all square and true.
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For me it is running ok, but I know I have left plenty on the workbench. Not sure what I will do next, but I'm sure something will pop up.
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Thanks for looking.
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