Sorry to cause confusion here. You've made a good point.

I was referring to the Homelight - Ryobi 31 - McColloch 28-32 - Weed Eater 18-21 - Homelite 33 thru 45 chain saws and the Poulan 33 thru 60 cc chain saw engines that I own. From the way you are discribing your Weed Eater 26, your assumptions are correct.

I'm not familiar with the Weed Eater 26 engine. I'm sorry, I go around the discount stores keeping a eye on the weed whackers, blowers, and chain saws but for some reason, I've never come across a Weed Eater 26? I have seen some double ended Sthils at the local hardware store but was never able to check one out very closely. There is a dealer near by that sells Kioritz (very well made and I've looked at cut aways but for some stupid reason never gave any thought to the direction of rotation.) but after seeing the prices of the Kioritz, I didn't go back and that was 4 years ago. I'm normally not in a position to come across a used Kioritz which may be more affordable?

All the engines I've been involved with, all rotated in the correct direction on the flywheel end. There's a lot of double ended ones out there that I havn't seen taken apart or evaluated which way they turn? I'll make it a point in the near future to evaluate the double ended Sthils and Kioritz engines in order to keep from getting my foot in my mouth again? I perfer to be correct in what I say as everyone else does.

Jim