How to Properly Remove and Realign the Fuel Cap on a MS250 Stihl Chainsaw
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 มี.ค. 2014
- Blake from LawnEQ shows you how to properly remove and realign the fuel cap on a MS250 Stihl chainsaw. You can always trust Blake and the small engine parts specialists at LawnEQ.com.
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I have two stihls. One the cup screws back with zero problems and this one that I rarely use I spend a half hour before it magically seats down. These are great saws but Stihl gone lost their mind when they went and redesigned the simplest of parts to use on a saw
Had exactly the same thing, it went on for years, I dreaded filling up with fuel. I put some wd40 around the cap and it works perfectly again.
Wrong! Evidently our expert Blake here has never experienced the actual "real" problem. When everything is working, yeah, duh, do it just like he shows you. BUT sometimes the two part cap becomes mis-aligned, and no amount of "line it up stick it in, and turn it" gets it done!!! You have to realign the two parts of the cap itself - most easily by actually inserting the cap and turning it counter clockwise until you hear it click THEN clockwise or by driving the bottom part forward with something like a knife blade as seen elsewhere on TH-cam...
Thankyou for this comment! This is exactly what my bar lube cap did. After reading this it was an easy fix with no tools at all!
Thank you. This actually worked. I was so pissed off.
Love my Stihl saws except for the flippy fuel caps. Will buy Echo or Husky in the future.
Thea fukin caps are the most frustrating things ever invented
I fixed all my stihl saw flipy caps.problems , sold the lot & only buy old saws with the good old trouble free screw caps .!!!!
Thanks. I will practice this on my KM 110 Kombi. I've never understood why the gas cap leaks 2 out of 3 times when I attempt to refuel & I think the cap is tight.
+80srockerable Thats because the o seal on some of them is not the correct material for petrol
Thanks. I felt like such an idiot trying to figure it out. 🤦♂️😂😂😂😂
My ms210c is a chronic problem with seating the bar oil cap. I’ve run stihl for 40 years and this saw causes a fight to align the cap every time. No alignment marks, 3 raised notches inside sleeve of cap but will not lock down. I’ve spent more hours seating the cap than running this toy. When I remove the cap to add oil I pay close attention to location, the black flip on top of cap is parallel to the ground,, still no luck. Any ideas?
That is not a "neat" idea. It's complete bs garbage. Husky has been making tooless gas caps for years , with no moving parts. You just grab it and unscrew it! Simple and it works. Leave it to Stihl to overcomplicate something.
These are horrible. Even when you put them on properly, especially the oil cap tends to open when you are limbing. Worst when limbing spruces with a lot of limbs, the saw is moved a lot on the log and it needs only little piece of limb to open that cap. Swedish saws are way to go.
It really is a design drawback. Especially the oil cap is impossible to put in place when it is dim or dark.
Usually this leak takes place after double-checking everything and here we go again: oil drained on garage floor.
My Stihl fs 45 strimmer has a very nice easy to use screw on cap, that is much, much better to use.
I own and use five Sthil chain saws, but the one with bayonet caps is a messy let down.
I know the aircraft design that Stihl have used here may be ideal in aero applications, but the aircraft type cap is much bigger, and very much more expensively manufactured for its job.
I love Stihl stuff, but the corporate mindset that allowed this misguided adaptation to reach the production stage is a mile away from the exhaustive German thoroughness that we have all learned to respect , and depend upon.
If you ever have the entire contents of the oil tank pour over your trouser leg a few times: you will find out how i feel.
Yes horrendous design
Thank you. I had to force mine to lock into place. I thought it was broken, but I just needed more clockwise force on the cap to get it into place. It sounds idiotic that i couldn't screw in the gas cap properly.
Me, too. The oil plug sucks.
How much does one of these gas caps cost new?
Holy crap I am serious dude I never really knew how to take a fuel cap off and replace it properly until I watch this video I mean I was doing it wrong the whole time putting gas in can you teach us how to do that too
My chainsaw 462 is leaking oil from oil cap help me to solve this
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I sold all my flippy caped STIHLs i would spend 10 minutes ensuring cap was on right , only to hook onto a bush & caps off & petrol all down your leg now I don’t even own one & no more problems. All screw caps for me
Go Back to the old flat screwdriver stile, or screw on by hand!
The oil cap of MS250 is the detail which keeps on bugging me. It seems impossible to get it done properly. And then cap falls and all oil drained to your pant or pavement. I hate this plug in so good and powerful saw. A pain in my ass.
Thinking about my warranty
What about the oil tank?
Yeah they open quite often when you are limbing alot. Swedish saws are way to go.
How do you remove sthil caps that have broken in 2 ?
I can’t stand the ones that aren’t the flipping kind. I have to use the tool that comes with the saw to open it lol
A hammer
These things are a terrible design for reasons below;
I know of several people who have to store their saws on the side because they leak.
Sometimes the caps look & feel as if they are correctly secured but they arent so fuel or oil spills down your chaps
The caps harbour sawdust which ends in the tank when you open it
One of them broke thus rendering my saw in operable, so used my 346xp instead
No more Stihl until they get rid of these useless things.
same; have a stilh chainsaw (ms170 i think) and a farm boss i should fix but useless, both with screw, perfect.
have a stihl trimmer, with one of these "new EZ caps" and despite being normally zen, i only wish to punch the designer of this crap.
they fucked up. one day i found myself covered o fuel because the thing did not lock properly. this is dangerous, and i am sure people had accident because of it.
If you're too stupid to use this design then maybe you shouldn't be handling powertools at all
Dont blame him. Why should a gas cap require an instruction video?@@matsgranqvist9928
It's a poor design.
Didn't work. I do exactly like this, but no. Nothing appears broken or bent, but this doesn't work for me.
I hate the fuel caps on these saws.
Over engineered.....I have now broken two not using the chain saw frequently and forgetting what aligns with what. Pain in the butt.
John Goemans how do u fix it?
I bought a new cap, which this time does not fit as tight as the two previous ones. I can lock the cap without too much pressure. Working fine now. Still, it could still be one of the normal caps like the other sthil products.
John Goemans I turned it to tighten and pushed the black thing down but it wasnt lined up right so the top of the cap broke off and idk how to get the rest of the cap out now that the handle thing is broken off.
ATG said the man who made the fuel cap should have been fired.
Very bad design.
FYI, Stihl didn't "come up" with this design. Most jet engines have been using that design on their oil reservoirs for decades.
these are jets, not chainsaws/trimmers. they're not made of plastic. we need something functional.
These caps are utter shit, does anyone make a normal replacement. Much easier to use a screw driver to open it especially with gloves on