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<blockquote data-quote="jltrent" data-source="post: 1454632" data-attributes="member: 21075"><p><span style="color: #FF4000">460 is a homeowner saw, none of those are easy to work on, be it Stihl, Husqvarna whatever. </span><u>The new style carburetor has made them a lot harder and expensive to work on be it any saw. </u></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The same qualms were had when fuel injection came out. Nobody can work on it, parts are expensive, it'll never last, blah blah blah.</p><p></p><p>Again, I've had one for 3 years, it's been perfect. I never winterize it, always use 87 pump gas with ethanol, and it runs just like it did when it was new. Within two or three cuts it has adjusted to run perfectly, which is nice for the big temperature/humidity swings that we have here.</p><p></p><p>It does not run overly lean, it still burps blue smoke when cold and has a solid 4 stroke. In fact it will compensate for an air leak and save your saw, I had a leak from my decomp and didn't even know it until I saw some fuzz building up around it.</p><p></p><p>Take it from someone who owns one, don't sweat Autotune/M-Tronic. It's a great system.</p><p></p><p><span style="color: #FF0040">Send me all of those dirt cheap MS362's you can find. I can't find anything under 200 bucks.</span></p></blockquote><p><u>For a saw that cost over $700 there sure is a lot of them cheap, real cheap just look down this list. On average they are way below the older generation saws they replaced selling wise as $200 will buy a pretty nice looking saw for repair. Repair on them is very expensive. I like rebuilding the saws being it a 036, ms360, MS361, but I almost wouldn't have one of these for repair. /u]</u></p><p><u></u></p><p><u><a href="https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=ms362+stihl&_in_kw=1&_ex_kw=&_sacat=0&LH_Sold=1&_udlo=&_udhi=&_samilow=&_samihi=&_sadis=15&_stpos=24281-8679&_sargn=-1%26saslc%3D1&_salic=1&_sop=15&_dmd=1&_ipg=200&LH_Complete=1" target="_blank">https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R ... Complete=1</a></u></p><p>[/QUOTE]</p>
[QUOTE="jltrent, post: 1454632, member: 21075"] [color=#FF4000]460 is a homeowner saw, none of those are easy to work on, be it Stihl, Husqvarna whatever. [/color][u]The new style carburetor has made them a lot harder and expensive to work on be it any saw. [/u] The same qualms were had when fuel injection came out. Nobody can work on it, parts are expensive, it'll never last, blah blah blah. Again, I've had one for 3 years, it's been perfect. I never winterize it, always use 87 pump gas with ethanol, and it runs just like it did when it was new. Within two or three cuts it has adjusted to run perfectly, which is nice for the big temperature/humidity swings that we have here. It does not run overly lean, it still burps blue smoke when cold and has a solid 4 stroke. In fact it will compensate for an air leak and save your saw, I had a leak from my decomp and didn't even know it until I saw some fuzz building up around it. Take it from someone who owns one, don't sweat Autotune/M-Tronic. It's a great system. [color=#FF0040]Send me all of those dirt cheap MS362's you can find. I can't find anything under 200 bucks.[/quote] [/color] [u]For a saw that cost over $700 there sure is a lot of them cheap, real cheap just look down this list. On average they are way below the older generation saws they replaced selling wise as $200 will buy a pretty nice looking saw for repair. Repair on them is very expensive. I like rebuilding the saws being it a 036, ms360, MS361, but I almost wouldn't have one of these for repair. /u] [url=https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=ms362+stihl&_in_kw=1&_ex_kw=&_sacat=0&LH_Sold=1&_udlo=&_udhi=&_samilow=&_samihi=&_sadis=15&_stpos=24281-8679&_sargn=-1%26saslc%3D1&_salic=1&_sop=15&_dmd=1&_ipg=200&LH_Complete=1]https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R ... Complete=1[/url][/u] [/QUOTE]
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