Homelite SUPER XL

Allisandy

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I recently received my grandfather's blue Homelite Super XL (Manual oil pump). I did a lot cleaning/rinsing out and after some new gas/oil it fired right up. This led me to inquire about a couple of things:

1. The ID tag indicates a Serial Number A0 10200091. Any help with finding date of manufacture? Called Homelite Tech Support and they told me 1989. Knew that wasn't right since I helped my grandfather cut fence posts in the early 70"s.

2. The only issue I have found so far is it will not draw oil from the reservoir. The line is free and clean as well as fittings. The 2 pump O rings are good. It will push oil perfectly to the bar if I pour oil into the manual pump housing. The issue seems to be at the reservoir end. When I remove the line at the reservoir, I can hear and slightly feel suction. Is the oil reservoir supposed to be pressurized even though it is a manual oiler?

3. This saw also has a somewhat larger slotted bolt head located adjacent to the bar oil filler cap. I haven't removed it, but saw on a parts list that this is an automatic oiler component???

Any thoughts?
 
I bought a brand new Super XL with a 20" bar in 1976. It was red, and had both manual and automatic oiler. A friend had a blue Super XL, but it was only equipped with the manual oiler. I think your question concerned the automatic oiler - I was under the impression that all of the blue ones were manual oiled only, but I have no source to back that up.

Those were good reliable saws. Mine cut a lot of wood before I gave it to my son about 15 years ago. He still uses it regularly.
 
I have a blue Super XL that my Father bought used at a farm sale sometime in the 1970s. It has only a manual oiler.

Dean
 
The serial # code says it is a 1980. Super XLs were made in many colors from around 1965 to 1992.
 
(quoted from post at 13:55:10 01/16/17) The serial # code says it is a 1980. Super XLs were made in many colors from around 1965 to 1992.

Thank you. Maybe I was wrong about cutting with my grandfather during 70's. appreciate your info!
 
(quoted from post at 12:41:45 01/16/17) That slotted screw has flex hose and strainer on end. Strainer probably has saw dust stopping it up.

Thank you! I will check that out. Will let you know.
 

Well, that explains red paint inside carb housing. It is red while the rest of the saw is blue. Thanks for the info.
 

That is what this appears to be. Parts diagram I was looking at had me thinking it was one of the other. Couldn't see it being both. Thanks for the info.
 
Thanks for info! I will pull the slotted bolt and check for blockage and see what happens. Will post results.
 
Look at the check valve . Hose connects to it and is 90 degree bend.
Might be Part number A-59010 . Look at ebay.
I found some download able manuals at mymowerparts.
Post back what the problem was.
 
Thats funny. I just got my grandfathers blue XL out last week. I haven't run it for at least 25 years. Put a new fuel line and filter , some new gas.
Started and ran. Sharpened the chain and cut up a dead ash by the barn. Brought back great memories of cutting firewood with my grandpa. I
was only 12 when he give it to me in 1977. It was a few years old then.. It did make me realize why I bought a Stihl 25 years ago. Pumping that oiler and the steel handle is tough on the hands
Cheers
Martin
 
I cannot say I have "fond" memories of Homelites from back in the Wiz, Zip, and XL days when it comes to actually using them all day. Homelite is all we had for
the first year I was a tree climber and cutter for Asplundh. Saws would just about always stall when I was up in the air somewhere and then would not restart
until cooled off. Good thing we had lots of extra saws. I think my blue XL101 was one of best climbing saws I had. When Stihl became more common around 69 or
70, I tried out an 040. Night and day difference over our Homelites although I did not like the idea of an automatic oiler at first. Later got a Stihl S10 and
that too was amazing. I guess it was these foreign saws that did Homelite in. I still have the XL101 and the 040.
 
(quoted from post at 10:48:03 01/16/17) I recently received my grandfather's blue Homelite Super XL (Manual oil pump). I did a lot cleaning/rinsing out and after some new gas/oil it fired right up. This led me to inquire about a couple of things:

1. The ID tag indicates a Serial Number A0 10200091. Any help with finding date of manufacture? Called Homelite Tech Support and they told me 1989. Knew that wasn't right since I helped my grandfather cut fence posts in the early 70"s.

2. The only issue I have found so far is it will not draw oil from the reservoir. The line is free and clean as well as fittings. The 2 pump O rings are good. It will push oil perfectly to the bar if I pour oil into the manual pump housing. The issue seems to be at the reservoir end. When I remove the line at the reservoir, I can hear and slightly feel suction. Is the oil reservoir supposed to be pressurized even though it is a manual oiler?

3. This saw also has a somewhat larger slotted bolt head located adjacent to the bar oil filler cap. I haven't removed it, but saw on a parts list that this is an automatic oiler component???

Any thoughts?

I worked at company selling new Homelites in the 70's. I just remember by 1975 there were no more blue one to be sold new at that place.
 
Blue came back in special runs. Like this "Old Blue" model in 1992.
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In my area the Homelite dealer started selling Jonsereds in the 60's, most everyone switched to them and never went back. I still have a 621 that my dad bought in about 74, use it occasionally.
 
Not to start a ruckus but on my Mc Culloch saws I use straight clean
30wt oil. Easy to pump. Givr it a try.
 

The Homie XL, Mac 10-10, Pioneer 1200...they were all state of the art at one time. Different times. I have a Solo from the late 60's that has all the modern features we enjoy today. Who ever heard of Solo?!! Not many. Times change. These days if it doesn't run 14,500 rpm wide open, weigh 10lbs and have a jacuzzi attached they're no good!
 
I bought a Mac 610 new in the mid 70s and I thought it was as good as ever could be built, it was a giant leap from dad's old David Bradley. I cut a trainload of wood with that old Mac and still own it. Once or twice a year I run it a bit but not for long, My Husky 550 will cut circles around it, weighs 2/3 as much, doesn't vibrate and makes half the noise,, but one day the 550 will be an old clunker too, LOL
 
I worked for a northern NJ Solo dealer in the late 60s. Deere dealership with Homelite, Solo, and Stihl saws.
 
I seem to have several of the Super XL series and like them. I also have an old Xl-901 I think it is, on the heavy side and relatively slow running but with a good chain
it will buck up a tree trunk pretty good. I was always waiting for the 01 to wear out and I would buy a Husky or Stil but now I hear bout all the electronics in them and
I think maybe I will try and keep the old ones going. Also was given a Jonsered from the 80s I thinik, and it is a nice saw too. Screw the new ones.
 
(quoted from post at 11:20:44 01/17/17) I worked for a northern NJ Solo dealer in the late 60s. Deere dealership with Homelite, Solo, and Stihl saws.

Yeah, guys like you and me that were in the business know about Solo, Sachs, Olympik, etc., but few people in '68 had ever seen a European saw of any type.
 
(quoted from post at 17:22:51 01/16/17)
(quoted from post at 10:48:03 01/16/17) I recently received my grandfather's blue Homelite Super XL (Manual oil pump). I did a lot cleaning/rinsing out and after some new gas/oil it fired right up. This led me to inquire about a couple of things:

1. The ID tag indicates a Serial Number A0 10200091. Any help with finding date of manufacture? Called Homelite Tech Support and they told me 1989. Knew that wasn't right since I helped my grandfather cut fence posts in the early 70"s.
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2. The only issue I have found so far is it will not draw oil from the reservoir. The line is free and clean as well as fittings. The 2 pump O rings are good. It will push oil perfectly to the bar if I pour oil into the manual pump housing. The issue seems to be at the reservoir end. When I remove the line at the reservoir, I can hear and slightly feel suction. Is the oil reservoir supposed to be pressurized even though it is a manual oiler?

3. This saw also has a somewhat larger slotted bolt head located adjacent to the bar oil filler cap. I haven't removed it, but saw on a parts list that this is an automatic oiler component???

Any thoughts?

I worked at company selling new Homelites in the 70's. I just remember by 1975 there were no more blue one to be sold new at that place.

I cleaned vent on oiler filler cap as well as adjacent flex tube on slotted bolt, replaced o rings. Have oil coming from manual pump and slow trickle from auto oiler. Interesting. Thanks for all the help bringing this saw back to life!

Only one casualty...the screen attached to brass fitting at bottom of oil reservoir let go. Need to order new one.
 

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