Mildly Ported and MM'ed Husqvarna 455 Rancher!!!! A build for anyone. 450 455 460 465

[@mikescaffo4850]

I have a 455 absolutely positively love it

[@TCsOutdoors1]

Nice build, it seems like it was running pretty strong!

[@dubbssawshop]

Thank you for watching. It's pretty peppy for a Rancher. Man yall getting some decent snow I see. ❄️

[@TCsOutdoors1]

@@dubbssawshop yeah we are in a winter storm warning all weekend, hopefully we don’t get to much. Stay warm, Merry Christmas to you and yours.

[@MrSprintcat]

I'm looking to put a longer 24 inch light weight bar on my 455 , doing a muffler mod ,what do you think about a cylinder base gasket delete? And any suggestions for a light weight bar ? Thank you for the video.

[@cajun3197]

I like your approach. Less grinding more gain. Easy to lose power hard to gain. Best to keep it basic for something like this

[@dubbssawshop]

Thank you man. That's exactly what I was trying to accomplish on this build. Hard to drop the cylinder on these if you go a bit to far lol.

[@cajun3197]

@@dubbssawshop did you give it a timing advance? Those little things add up

[@MrSprintcat]

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[@shawncaudill424]

I love my 460

[@NothingButChainsaws]

I took the intake down a touch and took the muffler apart. Then took the transfers down to the divider. I need a popup lol. But it won't run right for some reason.

[@dubbssawshop]

Luckily this muffler was a open can, couldn't believe that. I think the problem with these is the super small transfer caps, just isn't alot for volume there.

[@Joe_Blo]

The 455 is the Chevy 350 of chainsaws.

[@BrandonBigB956]

They used to be cheap so made good sense to get them. Back when I bought my three they were $350 a piece and that came with 3 extra chains. Now they are $550 and for that better options are available for a little more and have a professional grade saw

[@jeremyfortune7274]

Does it run any better with all the mods as say a 460 would run out of the box? Or bout equal now? The 460 responds really well to mods. All I’ve done is add a pipe instead of mod to the original muffler and you can tell n throttle response.

[@dubbssawshop]

It's probably close to a stock 460 but will fall a bit short on torque. It's definitely worth the effort and work but it's as far as I'd go on one. 👍🏻 The MM is one if the biggest improvements to do to these.

[@tmac6593]

What pipe or mm is best for the 460

[@jeremyfortune7274]

@@tmac6593 they sell a real simple Ironhorse style pipe on eBay that I have and it works. It will be louder and noise is not power but in this case that pipe works!

[@ozdatman]

Nice, my 460 has some tweeking on the horizen. The husqvana manual says to start from 2.5 turns on the high and 1.5 turns on the low. Had me stumped when I replaced a piston and couldn't get it to run.

[@diy7594]

Thanks for this video i have ended up with a couple of these beaters laying around but wasnt sure how to wake them up a bit

[@mm88swrt]

I've got a 455 w/ just a muffler and tune. 24" full comp and it is a little ripper for its size. One day I'll open her up and play on the inside. But for now, it doesn't have any issues for 4yrs running so I will leave it alone lol

[@zeromark202]

Did you remove muffler baffle inside? Really not to bad for performance, definitely has more torque! My 460 rancher can’t lean on it as hard or bogs with the 24” bar. That muffler mod sounds great!

[@dubbssawshop]

Luckily this one was an open can. 👍

[@mattfleming86]

Seems to have more power than a 460 I ran for a while when I started getting back into cutting

[@EcSsAwS]

Those huskies sure are everywhere. I had a 455 rancher for a short while

[@garengtutorial8923]

Bagus 👍👍 wow

[@JoshNormandy]

I believe it's time for a MM on my 460... You got that 455 running like a top!!! 👍🏻👍🏻

[@dubbssawshop]

Definitely helps them out alot. 👍🏻

[@kingsaws]

After porting the 450 I was about 2 .5 full turns out on the high side

[@dubbssawshop]

Thats about right where I ended up. I think this one landed at 2-1/4 give or take after final tuning.

[@jimsworthow531]

honest opinion friend; i have my dad's older 455. is it worth the pop up piston and mild port work? go with the 460 jug and piston? on a 1 to 10 ; 10 being awesome, what increase in performance did you get? thanks. JB

[@dubbssawshop]

In my opinion if it isn't a new saw like this one, I would go with the 460 set up, now granted if the cylinder is good on the 455 then the pop up and mild port work will definitely net gains along with a muffler mod and timing advance. I'd say a 7 out of 10. But more displacement with the 460 kit would probably be better especially if modded. If I had to guess I'd say 15% gains over stock with the 455 work. Definitely not the best gains vs work but does really help. Claimshell saws Definitely require more work to do, just because you have to the whole saw apart just to get to anything.

[@jimsworthow531]

@@dubbssawshop thanks for such a detail of options; good on you.

[@Man-Time]

Nice running saw man! Thanks for the numbers to reference and comments on gains. I like it👍

[@MrSprintcat]

I thought u were going to show us some grinding ?

[@dubbssawshop]

Most of time I don't, just to hard to video and see what you need to see also.

[@diy7594]

If i get the 460 top end would i take the same amount of material away

[@dubbssawshop]

I would imagine the numbers are about the same, so I'd say go for it!!!

[@diy7594]

Thanks bud for the info itll be my first time ha ha

[@chrisradla]

that was truly excellent show and tell. thanks!

[@dubbssawshop]

I'm glad you like it, 👍🏻 thank you. If your not subscribed to the channel please consider and smash the bell so you get notified of new videos!!! I appreciate you taking the time to comment. 💪🏻 🤝🏻

[@robertdouglas3456]

Nice video! I give my son a 2255 Johnred.

[@dubbssawshop]

I really like the red ones. They secretly look way better than their orange counterparts.

[@DaneLewis-vg3dn]

Here you go.

[@dirtydogvideo]

its gonna take a year to cut that up into 1" pieces! 😆😆😆