Poulan 14" Chainsaw "flywheel seized" Questions

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...pulls easily but you can not turn the flywheel the engine is probably seized. Could be a piston failure or a bearing failure. check to be sure nothing is caught under the flywheel binding it

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...or seized up Check the clearance of the new coil to flywheel. It should be about .010" (aout the thickness of a standard business card). Also check that you didn't jam the start on the flywheel

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...flywheel and rubbing, or the egine has partly seized, remove the starter housing, with it off the saw does it pull freely? check the air gap between the coil and the flywheel, this should be 0.3mm, ...

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#39;t start. Very difficult to pull starter rope; seems like flywheel seized; partial or no movement. fresh fuel mix; spark plugclean and spark present. will it pull any easier with the spark plug out

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Flywheel won't turn or move depending on the engine, you may have a seized engine. If it a 4mix engine, it may have dropped a valve.

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Flywheel really hard to turn sounds like you mav have a seized engine

...wrong, either the ignition timing is out ( sheard flywheel key ) or the piston has scuffef in the cylinder ( seized ) remove the muffler and check the condition of the piston through the exhaust ...

...flywheel by hand. If it turns then there is a problem in the rewind system, if it doesn't turn then it is most likely seized. To check that, remove the muffler and look in the port and see if you can ...

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flywheel by hand . If it turns by hand you have to replace the recoil starter if it does not turn by hand that means the piston is seized and you have to replace the piston ans probably the cylinder .

...spark, there is only two reasons why it will not fire up, the ignition timing is out ( sheared flywheel key ) or there is too little compression ( engine has seized at some time trapping the rings

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