Do people still modify their OS-32sx's...Drill a hole in the carb? Grind down the crank web?

[OldSchool]

I have been out of the loop recently. 3 years ago there was an
article in MHT about drilling a hole in the carb (to help with the
idle setting I think...) and another article about grinding off the
webing on the crank shaft to allow oil to get to the engine bearing.
I had done these things, but I just ordered a new engine...do I still
need to do this, or are these problems alreadly fixed in the newer
engines?


Thanks!

[Carl Farrington]

OldSchool wrote:
> I have been out of the loop recently. 3 years ago there was an
> article in MHT about drilling a hole in the carb (to help with the
> idle setting I think...) and another article about grinding off the
> webing on the crank shaft to allow oil to get to the engine bearing.
> I had done these things, but I just ordered a new engine...do I still
> need to do this, or are these problems alreadly fixed in the newer
> engines?
>
>
> Thanks!

Wasn't this the OS 46, which had a temperamental mid-range?

[Philip Henderson]

"OldSchool" <OldSchool@here.com> wrote in message
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>
> I have been out of the loop recently. 3 years ago there was an
> article in MHT about drilling a hole in the carb (to help with the
> idle setting I think...) and another article about grinding off the
> webing on the crank shaft to allow oil to get to the engine bearing.
> I had done these things, but I just ordered a new engine...do I still
> need to do this, or are these problems alreadly fixed in the newer
> engines?

My OS32SXH benefited from the hole being drilled into the carb. It ran soooo
much better afterwards. Others who purchased theirs after myself had a
different carb (marked C-2 or something similar) and never had the slightest
problem.

Phil.

> Thanks!