I've used one for years to cut firewood. Its finally worn the thrust bushings out and the crank moves back and forth. Need to pull it apart and rebuild it. Running my old 031av now. Long live the old saws.
Thanks for the video. I had one of these taken apart in my garage for about a year. I had rebuilt the carb but got tied up with other things. Just reassembled and she runs like a rocket. That choke linkage was almost impossible. I had to use a small hemostat to grab it to fit it through the hole. I was shocked how well this thing runs. I normally fix and flip, but I'm keeping this one.
I was just out in shop trying to disassemble the 150. Trying to take the tank screw out 🤦🏾♂️ so glad I wasn't able too. Came in and said let me see what Leon has on the 150 and boom! Great info man!
Great video. I have a 150 Automatic, and had no idea how it came apart. It runs, but it’s been sitting on a shelf for 20 years, so I’m sure it’ll need fuel line/filter soon. Thanks again.
I have one of these in blue. It was the first saw I had besides my husqvarna 257 that I played with when I got the saw bug. I hate to admit it but, I'm one of those guys that split the fuel tank, THEN I watched Leon's video. LOL! Other guys said if you split the tank you're done as it's factory sealed. Well what do I do now? I ended up cleaning the sealing surfaces really well, and making a gasket out of very thin gasket material. Somehow it worked! I still have that saw, it doesn't leak at all around that gasket I made and it runs good. I am surprised at how much power this little thing has. I know this video is old but it's still relevant and will remain so. Oh, and that trigger mechanism is a huge pain if you spit this tank halves. Thanks for sharing this one Leon.
Thank you Leon ! Now i feel hope to get mine together again ! :-) Needed to brush the points and now have spark ! Did not look forward to assemble it...but now i do ! 🙂
Super helpful video, I'm trying to do a good deed for a guy and get his dad's old 150 running, I really wasn't sure where to start on this one, right where this video starts is where I decided to find a video.
Good video. 👍About that tygon fuel line. My experience using it on this model saw was fuel would seep past it into the air box, causing erratic operation. Use old school black rubber line now on all my old Homelite saws. .
Leon this vid was a lifesaver I spent two hours trying to work out how to do a rewind of the starter as my pulley was still attached to the saw I tried pulling on it I tried all sorts of stuff till your little tip about winding the pulley a little in the opposite direction and it just slipped out three minutes and it was a standard hook the spring to the pulley slip the cord out the back and reapply the tension cheers and many thanks from down under now i need to find out which is hi and which is lo so I can tune it a bit better, It was running well but I had to fiddle with it and stuffed things up
Well done and great camera angle. I'd seen a few of these on craigslist and never realized it was such a powerful little saw until you mentioned it. And yes it is sort of an odd looking saw but appears to be pretty solid.
Side tip...I insert the tips of a needle-nose pliers onto the hose end and press the handles apart which stretches the hose for a few seconds. With a small dab of silicon grease on the filter barb, the hose slides onto the filter with little effort. J K
Great video. I'm from Australia and just got my 150 Auto running, with some new fuel line, a carb clean and she runs ok now, but my choke seems to have several settings. I'm still playing with the hi and low to fine tune it. My problem is the fuel cap has a breather of some sort, but it leaks fuel badly from the cap. I don't think its the cork gasket seal, the fuel seems to leak out of the little hole in the cap with the gold coloured filler which looks like its meant as a breather. Any one got any clues as how to fix that problem, thanks Peter from downunder.
Assuming the Piston and cylinder are good, I'd look at the condition of the carb and fuel line. The 150 was an extremely reliable saw and there isn't much that goes wrong with them. Seals were never a problem back in the day, but these saws are also getting old enough that crankshaft seals could potentially be leaking.
been a long time since you posted, but what I do with my balky starting 150s is spray a little fuel mix right on the air filter, leave choke off pull over maybe twice then close choke. You can use a small hit of starting fluid, maybe twice, a second shot at the most, just do not keep repeating it. Works even better if you take the filter off, if you don't wear out your screw doing it multiple times. Anti-seize is your friend there.
If it's only leaking around that one screw. it might be worth a try. These tanks are epoxied together with something similar to JB Weld so if that bond is broken across a large area, vibration would probably cause the Red Kote to leak.
Most of these older saws don't have primers, Pulses from the crankcase are used to pump fuel from the tank to the carb. They do take a few more pulls to start if there isn't any fuel in the carb, but primer bulbs didn't appear on saws until after the 1990s if I remember correctly.
