Chainsaw leaks bar oil? The most common reason why AND Husqvarna saw leaking oil FIXED!! Repair Vlog

and as you can see just from sitting we have oil in the floor so i got to clean that up [Music] hey y'all thanks for tuning back into gerkanic i hope everybody's having a great week do not go anywhere because today i am going over one of the most common questions i get asked at the shop why does my chainsaw leak so much bar oil but before we get into today's video if you're a fan of saving time money and frustration while fixing your own small engine equipment while watching in-depth tutorials you've come to the right place because that's what i do i upload a couple times a week and if that sounds interesting hit that like button smash that subscribe don't forget to hit the notification bell and please leave a comment i love to read through the comments and i will reply to all the early commenters so it never fails if you haven't got something stuffed in the bottom of your chainsaw case it's probably full of bar oil like literally every chainsaw box i open look at all that bar oil and this saw has barely been used this is my chainsaw shelf every single shelf is full of you guessed it bar oil here's my other chainsaw shelf and it's full of our oil all right so the first thing i'm going to do is come over to the corner of my garage here where i've had this steel sitting for probably about six months and i am in a heated and cooled garage so that should have no effect on this chainsaw the reason that it's leaking i actually have not ran this chainsaw um at all in in forever i used it for some of my videos and did not run it and then set it back down here and as you can see just from sitting we have oil in the floor so i gotta clean that up so this is a saw i'm definitely going to be making a video on in the future about how to fix the oiler because obviously something is up with it the entire bottom end of it is moist from bar oil i really wanted to bring this one over to show about the caps but to find out where this is leaking from because it's it's from one end all the way to the other from the front to the back from where it's been sitting but it's also up in these cavities here it's it's very moist uh too but the only place it doesn't have any bar oil coming out of it is the actual oil reservoir right you know the tube right here where it should even right here there's a little bit of of oil so this thing might be leaking all over the place i don't know we're going to have to check that later now what i really wanted to show you was these steel flip top tool-less caps that they've come out with and they've been putting them on there forever and they are one of the most common gas and oil caps that i sell at the shop why because they're just not made to last very long and people have a hard time putting them in and out with the notches and they split and they will leak all the time on you so that's the first thing to check um if you feel like you're losing bar oil clean everything up real good fill it up put the chainsaw sitting flat on on the bottom and go ahead and put a paper towel underneath and see if it's leaking from there because that is one of the most common issues i see so if i would have known that my chainsaw was leaking like that i probably would have used it for this demonstration but i didn't at the time so i brought home a customer's husqvarna chainsaw that immediately the second you pour oil in it it starts dripping out so i see this a lot with the husqvarnas and the pool and they are the worst leakers that come into the shop and a lot of times there's nothing wrong with the machine it's just leaking through so we're gonna go over this one today i have it i have it here in a bag because it is a super leaker and we're just going to diagnose see what we can find and hopefully fix the issue now through this process i'm also doing an experiment i have not done this in my previous videos usually i sit down here i sit at the shop i make a video i edit it i post it this one i've taken days to do i went ahead and i bought a couple different kinds of bar oil and i was trying them out in my chainsaws my ms440 steel chainsaw and my cs590 timberwolf and i let them get hot and i would run them you know sporadically revving them up getting them to a good temperature and then i would let them sit to see how much bar oil they leaked out and to tell you the truth my findings were a little bit odd now why were they odd well because my chainsaws do not usually leak i keep them in a heated and cooled garage i don't have them in a box they just don't ever leak i use them they sit out for a little bit to you know release that residual oil that could be you know stuck to the inside of the clutch cover and then when i bring them inside they pretty much sit there for months and i never have a puddle underneath them so i really thought both of these saws would be really good for this experiment because one was pretty brand new and one was super old and maybe i could tell a difference and the results will shock you so for this demonstration i broke out my echo cs590 timberwolf chainsaw which is pretty much brand new it's barely been used then i got my old bad boy steel ms440 magnum chainsaw both of them have a 20 inch bar on it we're going to go ahead and put the dg bar and chain oil inside i'm going to run them both for about five minutes and every minute or so i'm going to rev it up and point the tip of the nose towards the cardboard so we can see what kind of streams coming off of that and then i'm just going to let them sit overnight and see how much they leak so i'm starting off with a clean slate of cardboard here i'm going to start these bad boys up and we're going to see what kind of streams coming out of them ah [Music] [Applause] [Music] wow [Music] all right so we can see that both of them got a pretty good stream coming off them we know that oil is reaching the tip of the bar and slinging off the ends so both of them are oiling correctly now i'm going to let them run for about five minutes throttling them up periodically throughout it getting them warmed up and see if they leak after [Music] uh [Music] [Music] [Music] so after running for five minutes with those intervals of revving it up we can see quite a large pile of bar oil and goo that came out of the 44 and let's see what came out of the 590. a little runnier just because it probably didn't have as much built up around the sprocket of gouda mix in with but let's take note of how much actually came out the back end while it was running instead of making it to the tip of the bar also so that might be something interesting so now i'm just going to go ahead and set them both on a paper towel i'm going to wipe them clean first and then i'm going to set them on a paper towel overnight and see how much leaks out we're just going to leave it just like that overnight now there are a few things that i noticed right off the bat when i look at this chainsaw the actual body of it all the plastic is pretty brand new looking i mean it looks barely used but check out this bar on top of this bernie ness right here which just was obviously turned over on the bottom and flipped around the chain's on backwards and uh it looks like it was rode hard and put up wet so let's take this clutch cover off and see what it looks like behind there well for as much bar oil as this thing's been leaking out of it this little reservoir right here where it's actually supposed to come out looks extremely dry so when a bar comes in looking like this with this dark line on the bottom sometimes it's even blue that means this bar has gotten way too hot that it is not getting the oil to it efficiently or they ran out of bar oil something but at some point this bar got extremely hot so next we're going to go ahead and check that there's bar oil actually in it because it's not leaking at the moment it might all leaked out and we're not going to be able to find a leak if it has nothing inside so um hold the front door the second i put it on its side it starts leaking like a sieve it barely has any bar oil in it but i don't know if you all can see that it's sort of blurry from here i can't get it to focus in on on that the oil line is actually coming unattached from whatever that little nipple is down there that it goes on i can't get it to to show it very well but as you can see right where my flashlight is there is a little nipple and that grommet has poked out i think we found our problem that was quick so looking from this side as you can see the actual little channel here is dry as a bone it is coming out somewhere underneath this plate maybe the line goes through back there we're going to take this off and see what's going on back there all right so it's been over 90 degrees here in arkansas and we're going to see how much these leaks sit in overnight you're going to be sort of surprised under the 590 check that out that is quite a little puddle there let's look at ms-440 and it's about the same lots of bar oil so let's run another test all right so i want to get behind this plate to see what's going on there's a little prong here held against the bar stud that actually keeps it in place so i'm going to bend that up and remove this plate check this out so this might be hopefully a super easy fix as you can see right here it's got a little 90 that obviously sucks the bar oil up through here goes into the pump and then pumps it to the bar which is obviously has not been getting the oil it needs at all so let's uh take this 90 out and see what's going on behind here all right let's take this out see what's behind here and there is that grommet that has fallen out let me get a flashlight on it so you can see that check it out the grommet is supposed to be perfectly set in that little hole and it is pushed through so maybe that's all our problem let's see so it's been a couple days since i did my last test i poured all of the dollar general bar oil out of these chainsaws and i'm going to put the echo in and run the same test let them sit and see what they do so [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] now because the oiler works on how many revs per minute that the engine is actually running i made sure that when i did the first test and the second test i revved both of them at the same time on both tests about every 10 seconds so let's see what kind of mess we have here now i did notice that the oil coming off the tip of the bars was much cleaner but that really is just because i have not used these saws since um the first test and the first test they both had a lot of gunky in them so you can't really attribute that to anything now we're going to remove this one i'm gonna say that's a lot less oil than we saw on the last one let's see on the echo yeah that's a lot less now it looks looks like a lot on the camera but actually it is way way less like let me put my finger next to that that's not as much oil that came out of the other test at all so already i think uh the echo brand has a head so as before we got about a 90 degree day tomorrow so i'm going to lay out some paper towels set them on there and let them hang out all day see how much they leak all right we're all set so thankfully a small piece of the grommet is still on this side because getting it through is probably not a fun one so oh it's not going to be fun getting it out i hope i don't rip it because we really need to get it back through here and i do not want it to fall into the oil tank hmm maybe i should go in from the inside and see if i can do some pushing through i'm going to try to press it through oh it totally just popped right back in sweet let me show you so i barely had to push it with my flat head and it popped right back into place so that's pretty awesome let's look at it from the other side so yeah it went right back into its little slot there and when we put that 90 um plastic piece back in we're gonna make sure that it's real snug and not squish it back into the hole and hopefully that fixed our problem so i really didn't know it was going to be that easy to fix or i probably would have found something a little harder to do a video on but thankfully for the customer this one's going to save them a lot of time money and frustration now for sure and a mess so i'm going to put my little side plate back on i'm going to fill it up with bar oil and we're going to see if it leaks now the main thing about it is is you've just got to find where the leak is coming from so you have to clean the entire saw off fill it up with bar oil and watch it all right so i've left these chainsaws sit for about a day and a half and it was about 86 degrees fahrenheit here in arkansas today so it was sweltering so let's see how much they leaked all right under the ms-440 we got quite a puddle going on there i'm not sure if it's as much as the dg brand but still that's a lot of oil next let's check out the timberwolf not as bad as the dg brand but still it leaks we're just gonna top it off here it is full all right i think we're pretty successful this thing hasn't leaked at all i've been letting it sit here a few minutes turning it on its side remember last time it was just pouring out very quickly now nothing's coming out i'm going to go ahead and run it and make sure it is coming out the reservoir and make sure it's working correctly uh [Music] all right we can see it's coming out the channel like it's supposed to it's not running out the bottom that is a very good sign and i think she's good so what did my experiment prove it proved that all chainsaws are going to leak a little bit why because while they're running they're throwing tons of bar oil up into the clutch cover around the sprocket and it's just as you saw creating a huge puddle as it's sitting there so there's still a bunch of residual oil stuck up in there when you leave it back in your case when you're done with it or you set it in your garage depending on temperature too if it's hot in that area it's going to all fall down and it's going to leave a puddle now if it's excessive then you know you have an issue somewhere like this one and you need to find it by cleaning the entire saw off filling it up with bar oil setting it on a paper towel and finding out exactly where that leaks coming from like on the steels you can see if it's coming from the cap area some of the steels have a vent behind the muffler for the bar oil tank if it's coming from underneath your clutch cover area you'll want to see if it's actually coming out the reservoir where it's supposed to and that's just you know that you rather it be oiling than not oiling at all so that that's not as big of an issue as coming out somewhere where it's not supposed to some of the steels have a oil line traveling up underneath the saw you need to check that one but really though the majority of saws are not leaking where they're not supposed to they're leaking out of areas where you know it's just going to come out anyways the majority of customers who think they have a oil leaking issue it's really just that residual oil and not an issue with the chainsaw so like i said if you want to make sure there is no oil at all after you're done using it you're going to have to remove the clutch cover clean that entire area up i would even suggest maybe putting it back into the you know bottle that you got it in and then you won't have any oil leaking anywhere but other than that all chainsaws leak so hopefully this video saves you time money and frustration in the future if you haven't found us on facebook yet find us at facebook.com find us at instagram at the realtor or find us at gigantic.com where you can get your own t-shirts hoodies and long sleeve shirts thanks and have a great day [Music] this

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Length: 21min 43sec (1303 seconds)

Published: Sun May 22 2022