Fantastic breakdown and to the point! great sequencing too! Wish all "how tos" would be this clean and concise for such a complete job! Much thanks!

This has to be one of the best how-to videos ever. You didn't spend 10 minutes describing your favorite screwdriver, you didn't point at the pull cord and say "hey this is a pull cord". You ran into the same annoyances we all will or have. Oddly enough I have a 3200 someone gave me. So this helps a shit ton. Good job.

Couldn't thank you enough for making this video! Excellent quality camera work, and you showed all the angles of re assembly I needed to see to get mine back together and running again. Thank you!!

ive got a talon chainsaw which i,m 100%certain that is this exact chainsaw , i hadnt used it in ages and all the fuel line were knackered and the chain bar oil line had come out too , i started pulling it apart and at the moment need a bearing puller to take the fly wheel off to access the fuel line . fuck me all i wanted to do was pull an old line off and push a new one on , its had a good clean and thankyou for showing me how to pull apart and rebuild this thing

Just got my hands on one. Oil was leaking bad. That was really awesome to watch. Thanks for posting! I’ll have a video of mine up soon! Vic

Great video and really appreciated. Last time mine was used was over 15 years ago when I loaned it to my neighbor and suffered from deteriorated oil and fuel lines. Lots of fun but running like new now.

Fun to watch video. I have one of these little saws I bought new at Walmart many years ago. It has cut enough wood to fill a train car and has been in the shop once for a carb rebuild.

Thank you so much for making this video! It helped me out a TON!

Very concise and helpful video. You even machined your own bar bolts! Great job, dude! Nimble from Southeast Texas.

Junk when you started, junk when you finished. RIP McCulloch.

Thanks for making this video. It was just what I needed.

Thanks for posting!

Top post sir. I have a Mac 3200 that I got handed down from a neighbour, which looks to all intents and purposes the same but with a 32cc engine. Just hoping my bolts don't go that way. But I've had the bar off so we're OK there. And I'm pretty careful not to cross the threads. It's a thorough disassembly/reassemble and for that I thank you.

Manufacturing of those screws was amazing! Never realised those tools even exist outside of factories!

not to worry or stress mate everyone is learning something new everyday in the engineering department even with the groans and sighs and annoyance of it we can still get our assembly orders together in visualization etc cheers from Australia

I live in Huntsville Alabama and if you live in the city you are allowed to place your old appliances on the side of the road and I found 2 mcullochs not at the same place but 2 days apart from one another,I had never heard of this brand of saw until finding these,one of them looked like this one except gray instead of yellow,and then one just like this one in the video,well the grey one needed a primer button,the yellow one was in rough shape,I replaced fuel lines,spark plug,carburetor rebuild and gaskets ,the biggest problem I had to overcome was the bar oil tank neck was busted and lid was missing,I got an old leaf blower gas tank and sawed both tanks in half and plastic welded them together and cut the original hole the bar oil tank neck came out of casing to make the new tank neck and lid fit, it looks pretty good , and last thing to fix is a broken stud for the bar, sorry for long rambling story but these saws are awesome and thanks for the video

THANK YOU THANK YOU I have a mac 3214 and had to replace fuel lines its nice to have someone find all those hidden screws and stuff that I would have spent hours on like the chain tenser :) ;)

i reconize the grunts and groans of FRUSTRATION

I had the same hold up on my mac cat 389 was a absolute nightmare taking it apart and putting it back together 😂

Thought I was getting a cheap chainsaw for a friend - turns out the oil supply tube rotted away and the painful process looking for answers lead me after about four hours to this video... A thousand times more useful than the official pages or parts pages were. Thanks for this vid. Not a fan of this brand and my experience today has not made my feelings towards it the slightest bit better...

have the exact same problem on the same saw. can't believe this video exists already

Awesome. Thanks.

Top job

EXCELLENT ! I appreciate this so much that I am sending you a new yellow work table towel. Yours seems oil-logged.

ill be having that fun in the near future

I was pulling apart my Mac Cat to see why it isn't oiling and guess what? - No oil line! Then I found this video whilst looking for help to take it down further and burst out laughing when I saw yours had the same issue.

Got the same Saw but mine wasn't oiling thanks to your video I found out what the problem was ...

Good!👍👏

I just picked up 2 Mac 3200,s and they are identical to the 3516 other than maybe piston size or carb?? Both my saws have a oil leak,,probally that oil line?? almost positive and a easy fix.(kinda) And both of them have the chain riding too far up on the clutch sprocket,just outside the grooves for the chain. Just like yours. Puts a small bind on the chain as the clutch goes around. I tried to shim the clutch assembly out so they grooves line up better but then the clutch binds up and spins with the engine. I think maybe a design flaw??? I have seen this same issue in many videos.

Well holy shit. You sure know what the heck your doing. Me, I would have got it apart and forgot how to put the damn thing together again. Woulda thrown the whole pile of parts in the trash.

All you gotta do to get the fly wheel off is hit the shaft with a big hammer. No need to take the pawls off

Great video even if it's over 2 years old I got a 3518 a couple weeks back that was a no start. After a close look the gas lines were broken after replacing them vooom voom a sweet running saw so I filled it with gas hoping to get some trimming done and gas running all over seems the gas tank is bad. So why am I telling you this because you showed me how to get to the gas tank. Plain and simple now to find a tank. 1 question however is it worth paying a shop to do the work I'm not at all good with small engines. Thanks a whole bunch and I mean that.

Sir, That was a terrific video and extremely informative. Thank you so much for that. I own one of those machines at this time, and my biggest problem with it at this time is a crack on the top of the oil tank. I'd like to try to fix it, but I need to get it out. Once you essentially split the case in half, you expose the oil tank. I your video, there comes a time when you reinsert the oil tank back in place. Is that so? Is it just held in there by tension?

Great job! love these saws (MS1435), have two fo them and use them over my stihl. mine are actually (38cc"s), weakness for sure is the worn out bar studs. I did replace 1 stud years ago with an NOS stud I paid $17.00 for on ebay. I now have to swap the other stud. picked up a pair of used studs and nuts for 10 bux (ebay). iirc, i was able to replace the stud once gas tank was out of the way, I dont believe I removed the clutch or that far/right sdie case? anyway, I am going to swap that stud and I will be able to refer to this video , I also will pay attn. to the oil lines to make sure all is good. THANK YOU!!!

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I'm having a similar problem with a Poulan Pro 220. The stud is turning with the nut. So I can't even get my bar off. I would just Chuck it but this cheap saw runs better than my stihl's on some days. Its not as cold blooded either.

Great stuff. But why didn't you just re tap the stripped studs to a 12mm nut???

Shit, think I have to do this with mine.. thanks for the video.

Mine is leaking bad and does not seem to oil the chain. I wonder why (insert sarcasm here). I'm going to tear it down. Thanks bro

Cómo regular la entrada de la gasolinera de ése tiempo de motosierra y del carburador

Hello, tell me the crankshaft oil seal number on this saw?

Me puedes pasar una imagen de diagrama de instalación de mangueras de gasolina para la Mac 3200

Como Faso para comprar pessa para mcculhoc 740 no Brazil tá muito difícil porque não tem loja no Brasil

Would this work on a ms1432

I do have a problem the Chan is not spinning why's that

Why didnt you just use the original bolt and retread it to one size smaller nut. Probably would of been less painful, but not as fun.. good breakdown video though.

No fire to plug

Would have been nice to see you clean it up before reassembly.

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do not attempt to fix! its not worth the eight bucks for the stud! this saw is almost as bad as the little poulan!

I will never understand why people make videos to repair something they have no idea what they are doing.