HPI Savage Engine and glow plug troubles...please help!
01-26-2013 | 10:14 AM
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HPI Savage Engine and glow plug troubles...please help!
Hey guys so please bear with me as I am fairly new to this. I have a HPI Savage with the .25 engine. It has always run fine, and then went unused for a while (put after run oil in before putting it away). When I pulled it back out I got it running and had to do some tuning, to the best of my abilities after scouring forums and videos on proper tuning, and I think I have it dialed in fairly well. Was running it and the engine died and notice my glow plug was done for, so I put the spare I had in and went out to run again. Got it started and ran a couple minutes before I got another dead plug.
Did some research into what type of plug I should get and bought another one. Put it in ran it, and it was running pretty good...really cold that day and I noticed it wasn't hitting high enough rpms to shift, and the engine was running pretty cold. To my knowledge that means its too rich (because a lean engine runs hot, and if your running rich you can bog your top end) so I leaned out the top end a little bit, and was running and shifting like a dream. My friend wanted to time a base run, so I lined up and on go hit the gas, engine died immediately: dead plug. I don't know why I keep blowing plugs, but I'm getting tired of it.
One more question (sorry this is so long): when trying to start the savage (I have a Roto Start) it can sometime take a bit, and I'm not getting good compression on every rotation...when you listen to the engine trying to turn over it goes in and out of nothing, then having compression again, then nothing. Is that my engine going out, or someone told me it could be my one way bearing, but I don't know how to check if that's the problem or not.
Thank you so much for your help!
Did some research into what type of plug I should get and bought another one. Put it in ran it, and it was running pretty good...really cold that day and I noticed it wasn't hitting high enough rpms to shift, and the engine was running pretty cold. To my knowledge that means its too rich (because a lean engine runs hot, and if your running rich you can bog your top end) so I leaned out the top end a little bit, and was running and shifting like a dream. My friend wanted to time a base run, so I lined up and on go hit the gas, engine died immediately: dead plug. I don't know why I keep blowing plugs, but I'm getting tired of it.
One more question (sorry this is so long): when trying to start the savage (I have a Roto Start) it can sometime take a bit, and I'm not getting good compression on every rotation...when you listen to the engine trying to turn over it goes in and out of nothing, then having compression again, then nothing. Is that my engine going out, or someone told me it could be my one way bearing, but I don't know how to check if that's the problem or not.
Thank you so much for your help!
01-26-2013 | 11:23 AM
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Hey guys so please bear with me as I am fairly new to this. I have a HPI Savage with the .25 engine. It has always run fine, and then went unused for a while (put after run oil in before putting it away). When I pulled it back out I got it running and had to do some tuning, to the best of my abilities after scouring forums and videos on proper tuning, and I think I have it dialed in fairly well. Was running it and the engine died and notice my glow plug was done for, so I put the spare I had in and went out to run again. Got it started and ran a couple minutes before I got another dead plug.
Did some research into what type of plug I should get and bought another one. Put it in ran it, and it was running pretty good...really cold that day and I noticed it wasn't hitting high enough rpms to shift, and the engine was running pretty cold. To my knowledge that means its too rich (because a lean engine runs hot, and if your running rich you can bog your top end) so I leaned out the top end a little bit, and was running and shifting like a dream. My friend wanted to time a base run, so I lined up and on go hit the gas, engine died immediately: dead plug. I don't know why I keep blowing plugs, but I'm getting tired of it.
One more question (sorry this is so long): when trying to start the savage (I have a Roto Start) it can sometime take a bit, and I'm not getting good compression on every rotation...when you listen to the engine trying to turn over it goes in and out of nothing, then having compression again, then nothing. Is that my engine going out, or someone told me it could be my one way bearing, but I don't know how to check if that's the problem or not.
Thank you so much for your help!
Did some research into what type of plug I should get and bought another one. Put it in ran it, and it was running pretty good...really cold that day and I noticed it wasn't hitting high enough rpms to shift, and the engine was running pretty cold. To my knowledge that means its too rich (because a lean engine runs hot, and if your running rich you can bog your top end) so I leaned out the top end a little bit, and was running and shifting like a dream. My friend wanted to time a base run, so I lined up and on go hit the gas, engine died immediately: dead plug. I don't know why I keep blowing plugs, but I'm getting tired of it.
One more question (sorry this is so long): when trying to start the savage (I have a Roto Start) it can sometime take a bit, and I'm not getting good compression on every rotation...when you listen to the engine trying to turn over it goes in and out of nothing, then having compression again, then nothing. Is that my engine going out, or someone told me it could be my one way bearing, but I don't know how to check if that's the problem or not.
Thank you so much for your help!
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