PORTED 394XP, 3 TANKS IN, HOW DOES THE PISTON LOOK?

[@shaner67]

Perfect color on the plug.. that's tuned

[@rise_above]

Enjoy looking into your build. Helps out a lot.

[@billyb.9878]

I've always called your saws, strokers. 50 years ago I lived at the 1/4 mile drag strip. My motors were long strokers. I know 2 cycle versus 4 stroke. Good boat motors have small bores & long rods. Anyway I like your thought process. Later.

[@thomasfrost6993]

Road King, I think you'd love it!! My Brother in-law rides Gold Wings and had to pick up a Road King for a client so he got to drive it for an afternoon bringing it to Maine from New Jersey. You should have seen the grin on his face.

[@johnnybrigham8754]

Danny great job on your pipe sounds great nice work jb.

[@griffinphilemon5083]

In my pipe building, ive found the pipes that twist with angled/cut pipe, the charge swirls and starts to spin like a vortex. This can be seen by washing the pipe, and the water will come out of the pipe clung to the walls and like a reverse vortex. This could be helping the scavenging inaide the chamber by pulling the charge in a swirling motion. They may use more fuel due to this effect aswell, as none of the charge is coming back in like a tuned pipe but the more out and more in is better in my findings.

[@alltherpm]

Ever heard of a syphon

[@griffinphilemon5083]

@alltherpm if that's all that was occurring every pipe would work... thats not what I've experienced. There's got to be something else starting the draw/suction.

[@alltherpm]

@griffinphilemon5083 it does work but smooth and straight is what air wants to do,

[@user-ret-cde-ret]

Really enjoy these videos on this saw!

[@moreaudibell3638]

Nice saw! Sounds great and runs great. Excellent Job

[@aaronpowell4885]

Looking good👍🏻 definitely a keeper!

[@_JamesBrown]

Congrats on 60k!! Learned a ton from you, bud

[@daviddavies9996]

Great video shame I haven't got time to watch them all I've learned loads off you 👌👌🤙🤙

[@glennwmurphy1]

my 384 has the dumbest throttle cable routing, it comes out of the case over an inch off of straight-up to the throttle lever, and i had to gumball a bunch of small pieces to extend the throttle shaft for a straighter pull. when i ported it my wife came into the shop while it was really windy, and the door slammed! shut while i was shaping the lower transfer port and i gouged a "tear drop" extension toward the upper transfers, it was radical, quite a trench, but i had to clean it-up and match it anyway, and it ran great, started easily, had tons of torque, it seemed to have no effect except it will empty the tank quicker. then i found out what that mod did. i had my 36 inch bar on to buck an elm that was just over 4 feet in diameter, and oh my god, did i discover what that "mistake" did. i actually made two mistakes that morning. i hadn't used the 36" bar since i dropped that monster, and had forgotten i had square filed it new for the drop, and i just had a round file, so i ran the file until it just bit into the teeth, and bucked. it repeatedly went through that elm in about 30 seconds, no bullshit, i timed it, 30-35 seconds, it was through that trunk "like butta". and i realized with that load on the saw, it had kind of a "low-gear" it went into that just threw a geyser of really nice chips in a dense shower. what i think happened is that lower port deformation allowed the saw to pull more fuel under full load, and i was kicking myself for not having a camera. but that elm, all 110 feet of it, is in my woodshed, dry as toast. i also noted that putting a round file into a square filed chain created teeth that were pretty much five-sided razor blades, and that was proved instantly.

[@billybobswood8153]

i have a 98 dyna w/leather bags! love it! that saw runs and cuts awesome!! a little too heavy for this old man!!

[@tinmanssaws]

Yeah she's heavy for sure.

[@clarencetrice4442]

😊😊 HI TINMAN U should always redone a cylinder 2 clean the cylinder up and it will help the piston rings seat alot better and help it have good 👍 😊 compression from loosing HP 😊😊 OMG 11 5 2O24

[@mattw5729]

Great stuff, thank you Sir!

[@raynheath450]

I'm a small scale logger property clearing guy and the profit margins are thinner then arborist

[@tdawg8605]

Very nice build. On the subject of trimming and running a saw with no woodruff key, how or where do you lock it down to get a running saw. Maybe a good teaching video to explain the ins and outs. My 272xp build has sheared two keys from kick back. The mag has a molded key. Would be nice to see a clean, clearly explained video on this aspect of a build. Again nice saw. TC Mahalo Tinman 🤙🤙🤙

[@HayChaffandSawdust1]

@tdawg8605 I don't want to horn in where I wasn't asked, but in case nobody else answers... the timing key, often mislabeled a "shear key", is only there to correctly orient the flywheel. I run flywheels without keys. I've heard of the keys shearing off before; each time, the shaft or the flywheel was the culprit; the surfaces lock like a morse taper. It doesn't take much of an imperfection to disrupt the locking-together of the two tapers... I little bit of dirt, a "ding" in the flywheel or on the shaft, or about anything. I would hazard a guess, that once one spun, it will be difficult to get it to ever hold again without working the surface(s). Again, hope I didn't step on anyone's toes; further, if there's a different response, a good rule of thumb is to take their advice over mine.

[@tdawg8605]

@HayChaffandSawdust1 Thanks for the feedback. All info is good info I say. This 272xp I put together with parts. It never did run. I have a running 272xp that I built and the coil died on it this October. When I tried to swap out the coil from the none running saw, my running saw would not run. I had another old coil so I put it in and my running 272xp started up right away. So I took the old coil out of the running 272xp and tried it in the non-running 272xp and it fired and started but ran poorly, it back fired on a restart and sheared the key. So I was just going to run it without a key however I can't seem to get the timing correct. That's why I'm searching for timing info. If it kicks back is my timing too advanced or not enough? It's been a test of my patience for sure, this saw. Thanks again.

[@JohnBrunner-ym6qj]

I love that 394 well what I’ve seen of it that is she a ripper

[@thebradleysoncatbirdhill6849]

Following this one very closely.... I have a box in my shop full of parts to do a complete 394 build.

[@DanLathrop]

Hey buddy I'm glad you like the pipe

[@tinmanssaws]

It works great Dan!!

[@johnnybrigham8754]

@@DanLathrop nice job Dan on pipe looks and sounds great!!

[@alltherpm]

When u say u built it for idling and trigger response, well if u listen to crazy horse any improvement on case volocity does the opposite, snappier the saw the smaller the case volume,,, i would think porting would inlarge volume?

[@sttsok]

394 my favourite but no cylinder found.... Greetings from Greece

[@kristinejackson8268]

Try harvest king its a great bar oil and its affordable.

[@chrisallen3741]

How do you change the timing? Are you moving the crank? I thought there was a wood key…im not making connection

[@stevenlaxton3618]

Hey tinman…you know who sells 305s…..your buddy Donny walker!!

[@Grayhawk1976]

I'm up for stihl 036 parts😉

[@kurtsteele5587]

How's the Tinman and family

[@TuanAnhNguyen-vm5gu]

Tôi có cậu 394 đang bị hư lòng và pít tông chỗ bạn có những thứ đấy ko đấy

[@raynheath450]

Dgp can be the best bar oil on the planet but if you have to pay for it $116 canadian for a 4L jug makes it not worth it to me

[@gagecook6918]

I buy the cheapest Walmart oil I can here in Alberta

[@martyrutter3630]

I know there is higher shipping costs in Canada because in the USA it is around $120,00 for four gallons including shipping.

[@raynheath450]

@martyrutter3630 that's just the price of the oil but regular fuel is about 6 buck a gallon

[@ryanfriars545]

Lordco sells bar oil for about $12 per gallon, and I have never had an issue with wear on my bar or chain.

[@alltherpm]

I cut for a wk then had to switch chains for crappy wood,, didn't have to get a rag and an air compressor to clean it, dgp kept it clean, and I'm anal about my saws

[@wrstew1272]

61thou a month later 😅.

[@martyrutter3630]

In the near future DGB oil for gas mixture will be available and it will be a game changer also. 👍👍

[@ryanfriars545]

How so? There are so many great oils out there as is. How is the DGB oil going to be better?

[@martyrutter3630]

@ Wait and see it will be available in about five months 👍

[@ScrewdriverTUNING]

Wow 60,000 🤯 congratulations my guy I remember the setup when you were about to stop making videos with under 1000subs. Amazing channel glad to see you stuck with it. 🦾🧬🎯

[@chadhenwood6007]

Why not just get a 500i and port it that would be fun

[@clarencetrice4442]

😊😊 HI TIMAN 👋 😊 that other pipe didn't work because it didn't have the air flow it needed it should've made the saw pull just like the old school 🏫 😊 saws it should pull just like a tractor 🚜 😊 and a pipe there's no baffle in the muffler either and the sparkplug should be tan or light brown 😊😊 OMG 11 5 2O24