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I have a Stihl 044 and was wondering if I can find out what year it was made or atleast if anyone knows the years they were made. My serial # is 147505xxx which from what I have read means it has the 12mm wrist pin. What year did they change the wrist pin size? Seems everyone wants the 12mm wrist pin but from what I have read it makes no difference?
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they are all a great saw
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Does anyone know about what year mine would be? Mid 90's?
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Cant really find any info but it looks like they were produced from 1991-2001.
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I've heard people say the 10
mm had more aggressive porting, better running saw, fwiw. I have a 12, and it is my favorite saw.
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I think they were being produced before 1991 but I am not for sure. Seems like it was 1989 or 1990 when I spent a couple years working for a dealer and they were putting out the 038 mag and 044 at the same time.
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The years listed for the 044 are 1988-2001.
The bulletin I put up gives the serial number break for the changes.
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Pre 1300- serial # is 10 mm. Very early 12's had the 10 mm non decomp slant fin cylinder with the good timed cylinder and early heavier flywheel. I had one.
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huskyboy said:
Pre 1300- serial # is 10 mm. Very early 12's had the 10 mm non decomp slant fin cylinder with the good timed cylinder and early heavier flywheel. I had one.
MIne is an early 12 and it has no decomp. I don't know if it's a slant fin, but it is by far my most-fun-to-use saw, and it cuts surprisingly well despite having only 125 psi left in it, and that was measured 5 years ago. This machine definitely represents the sweet spot of saw engineering. I had a cherry specimen of the 038 super magnum or whatever the top one was, and it had good torque, but was a heavy clunker compared to my 44. I sold the 038 to a buddy because I thougth it was too heavy.
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You should try to get that 038 mag back.
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cus_deluxe said:
You should try to get that 038 mag back.
I probably could. The guy is an old friend, and not a saw guy. I'd just need to give him something about teh same size.
I don't really like the 028-038 saws, though I know everyone else does. They're heavy and use a lot of gas. I suppose the fuel usage makes them tougher via better evaporative cooling, which on a hot Kansas day is meaningful. I have plenty of saws, way too many
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I bought my 044 in 88 or 89, I believe it was the first one my dealer sold. He gave me a discount on it, he'd used it for some test cuts behind the shop. I think he had a hard time selling them as the local loggers (pacific NW) thought it was a girls saw and the firewood cutters didn't want to spend that much.
I've been grateful ever since that he talked me into that saw.
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teacherman said:
I probably could. The guy is an old friend, and not a saw guy. I'd just need to give him something about teh same size.
I don't really like the 028-038 saws, though I know everyone else does. They're heavy and use a lot of gas. I suppose the fuel usage makes them tougher via better evaporative cooling, which on a hot Kansas day is meaningful. I have plenty of saws, way too many
It would probably stand up to milling pretty well. There was never a 90 cc variant of this platform, was there? An "068?"
That would be a beast.
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Clearly it's not a slant fin. Does it look OEM to anyone?
The 4 digit number is encouraging....
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teacherman said:
Clearly it's not a slant fin. Does it look OEM to anyone?
The 4 digit number is encouraging....
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It says "Stihl" behind the flywheel. OEM.
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