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Finally had a chance to rebuild the carburetor on my Mark II chainsaw. Got it to fire but it needs a lot more adjustment and fine tuning. Operators manual calls for 16:1 gas to oil ratio - has anyone run these with the 32:1 ratio or am I better off mixing a specific batch for this saw? Overall the saw looks to be in pretty decent shape. Now that I know it can run I might tear it down for a full cleaning and to make sure everything is correct.

Continued progress on the 1964/5 Bolens 900. In this video we work through the problems with the drive belts, make a new belt guide and fit the PTO

Here are a couple of pics of my new acquisition, a 1993-1995 MTD according to https://www.tractordata.com/lawn-tractors/tractor-brands/mtd/mtd-lawn-tractors.html The first two pics are when it got dragged home, the last is after cleaning and getting it running again. It had sat for 18-19 yrs in covered storage. All it took was drain the old gas, a set of battery cables and new battery. What surprised me was with the old gas that was in it, the carburetor needed NO work, fresh gas, bit of cranking and away it went like it had been started the day before.

My sister and BIL where up in Newman for some years. Some big machines up there.