Adjust Chain Tension

doesn't we run a risk of messing up when we sharpen so we want to snug it down basically we're going to loosen up two bolts on this side and snug it down i'll show you how that's done we're going to take our scrunch we're going to loosen these two nuts these nuts have keepers in them the keepers basically keep you from losing the nuts that hold this case cover on right here okay so we'll loosen that oh oh over tightened over tighten gorilla don't over tighten those you can strip them out that was way over tightened had a chainsaw mechanic tell me one time best thing to do with this is cut the end off so you don't over tighten just like those were over tight and they were way too tight don't need to be that tight now we're going to take this end of our scrinch and we're going to check our saw real quick i'll show you we're going to check this and we're going to tighten down there it is that's it you still want a little bit of play but you don't want it super tight i'll over tighten it you don't want it so tight that it doesn't come off you want it just a little bit of play right there okay and you'll fine tune that and you'll figure it out because when you start the saw up and it's like that it's over tightened you'll hear it when you hear the chain whine a little bit now again we'll take our scrinch and we'll snug this guy down just hand tight guys you don't have to gorilla tighten it okay i'm bad about doing that but i learned a lesson because i stripped these out on one of my ms-170s one time so now we're ready to start sharpening so we defined all