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Well first you have to find out exactly what is leaking where. Then decide what needs or can be fixed and what needs replaced. The entire plastic tank/handle and tail drop out of the main case of the saw once all the rubber anti vibe mounts are disconnected and the fuel line pulled from the...

Then yes, the tank is part of that assembly- rear handle/trigger control group/ front tank tail. Have you ever seen an IPL? = Illustrated parts list? Exploded diagrams of saws with part numbers for each. Very handy to explain things visually as to what goes where.

We are talking one of these? Tank is independent of the crankcase. If you are 100% sure the tank is not leaking from around the filler cap or the vent built into the filler cap- then my best guess is one of the bolt/screws that hold the wrap handle tail to the tank side has been replaced...

Yes, the tap provided in the helicoil spring type thread "repair" cuts 16mm threads- the insert takes up the difference between 16mm and spark plug 14mm X 1.25. I believe keysert do "fat" wall inserts, but do not do one (I could find locally) that is both short and 14 X 1.25 internal. So in...

Oh, yep- okay.

Then where does the watered down carbon go?

Well if you removed all that stuff and no change- what are the odds of starter pulley damage being the cause of your issues? If you take the starter off the saw does the rope pull nice, smooth and easy?

Was in pretty good original condition- still has all the washers under the heads of the bolts on the cylinder and starter cover- they usually go missing early. I found an oversized thread repair insert for the cylinder- will be interesting to see how well it lasts. I am assuming as the damaged...

It lives again.

Do not know- what I do know is this one stopped and I was the first to open it- no foreign bodies apart from bits of ring- all bearings, cages and shells complete and undamaged, nothing like a plate screw out of place, no other debris in muffler/crankcase or cylinder- no dings on top of piston...

Bearings, bottom end and all usual suspects are like new still- cannot find anything missing on the intake tract- so unless somehow something was introduced through the intake tract from an outside source- we might beg to differ on this one.

Picked up another 2100 the other day- swapped for an old Oregon D009 24 inch bar and chain. Missing the starter rope- all top plastics- clutch, so no idea if it had spark or compression. 2100's are rare enough here- when you have one you grab what parts you can where you find them. Fitted up a...

Husqvarna 455 Rancher- are these things prone to ring catch in the transfers? This is the second one I have been presented with that died in similar circumstances- almost like the ring became gummed (carbon?) into the intake side, near the locator pin and the other side has been forced out...

Keep an eye on local marketplace and the bay of E type sales of 029's and compare their condition to your own saw- base a price off of that? As for the 170- what @Chainmale suggests is the perfect reply and although they state 16" as max- the saw will not appreciate it.

Its a balancing act. There are several ways to go about it, cheap aftermarket, secondhand OEM and new OEM. You have to balance what is needed versus what can be saved, what the needed costs and your time- all weighed up against current secondhand MS 361 running saw prices. It does not take real...

In my opinion- the saw was never straight gassed to cause that kind of failure. If it had been, the top of the piston and the rings would be welded/fused as one. In your photos it looks like the rings are still free to move in the lands. Also the large bash mark in the lower transfer looks like...

It can be removed- but the cylinder has to come off to do it. Make sure the flywheel is not loose- or rubbing the coil first- then perhaps check if the flywheel key is still in place and the wheel correctly aligned. Does the saw have a normal ordinary recoil starter- or one of those soft start...

They are a fairly peculiar piston that you cannot really confuse with that of another saw and if it were for say the 440 not the 435- no way in heck it is going into the bore- so oversized piston might be a bit of a reach. I guess they could have deleted the cylinder joint gasket halves and...

Well, I can say I have never personally had an engine seize that well- but I guess- possible. You say the piston is basically fused to the cylinder? The wrist pin socket on the piston is broken? So what exactly is wrong with the bottom end? Had the bearings in the bottom end failed- entirely...

Just clean and check each component as it cones off in regards to the starter- once cleaned and after being handled and looked at for a while, sometimes something jumps out at you as not quite right. Hydro locking is where the crankcase becomes full of fluid through repeated rope pulls and...