VI Super Mini oil line routing

[dpress]

I was cleaning my recently acquired (and now running) Super Mini today, and took the starter cover off to check the routing of the fuel and oil lines, and have become confused again (not difficult...). As previously noted my manual oiler has been deleted and removed completely including both oil lines that went to and from the plunger. When I look at the IPL for this saw it appears as if there are 2 separate feeds from the oil tank - one going to the oil pump and one to the manual plunger, with 2 filters.

Checking today I can clearly see an oil line exiting the top rear of the oil tank where it has a piece of corrugated hose that forms a bend, and then (on my saw) is attached to a metal oil line that disappears towards the direction of the bar. What I can't work out is whether what I am seeing is the oil feed to the oil pump, or the remains of the manual oiler system?

I have checked the IPL for other Super EZ type saws and they are slightly different as regards oil lines, and the routing for them is not clear to me. I basically want to make sure that I know where the oil lines exit from the oil tank, so that I can check for any leaks if they occur. When running the amount of oil splattered around is enormous - not that this is too much of a problem as it is fitted with the hard nose bar, but I expect it will almost use as much oil as petrol!

Thanks, Steve

[onlyhomelites]

Take a look at your oil pump...is there a hose barb on the muffler side of it? If so, there should be a hose from that barb that goes through the drivecase and up into the back of the oil tank. The manual oiler feed would be from a barb on the other side of the saw, just above the starter. It's a threaded fitting; early ones were metal and after the early 70's they switched to plastic.

If your saw is an early model that does not use a separate feed for the oil pump, you'll need to put the oil lines for the manual oiler back in. Both oilers drew from the same source and routed through the crankcase before making it through to the bar pad.

[dpress]

Okay thanks Leon, I will check further. I don't know if my December 1972 saw is an early or late model - the one oil line I can see is a metal barb from the rear left of the oil tank directly behind the pull start as you describe. The corrugated flexible hose attached to that barb then does a 90 degree turn into the saw internals and attaches to another metal line that comes up from the crank case area. I will take a look at what I can see of the oil pump - provided there is anything to see without taking the clutch off, as I don't have a tool to remove the S clutch on my machine yet.
Thanks, Steve

[fossil]

The older Homelites do oil heavily. The Mini's and EZ models oil very heavily for a saw that size.

[dpress]

I have done some dismantling today and further cleaning, and attach a couple of photos of the relevant parts. the first one shows the corrugated oil line that actually turns through 180 degrees before attaching to the metal oil line, and the second is of the rear of the oil pump - no barb present as far as I can see.

Steve

 

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[onlyhomelites]

That sure looks like a early saw that all feeds through the 1 line. The turn with the ribbed hose should allow the automatic oiler to work properly though.

[dpress]

Excellent thank you. I was hoping that might be the case. Now it is apart again I think I will be doing some more cleaning - it looks in a right state when I zoomed the photos!

Steve