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Old 11-15-2015 | 03:47 PM
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I am a bit concerned I've damaged my b5, took it out yesterday to see how everything was after having a short break and about 15min in the car took off at full noise, I was in such a rush that I didn't haven't an elastic band on my carb as a safety and turned out it was a faulty connection on my switch that cause the rx to loose power thus sending the car off at full noise . It ended up hitting a fence and landing on its lid but was screaming for a good 30seconds before I could get to it . I shut it down and man was it HOT. The engine and pipe were smoking and the fuel was almost boiling . I put the temp gun on it when I got it back to my tools about 2min later and it was giving me about 170 so it must have cooled somewhat on the walk back . I pulled the plug out and the element was literally scorched almost to white dust it looked like, when I got home I pulled the engine down and everything's seems ok bar the top of the piston and the head button are a light greyish colour and almost look like there is some really tiny what looks to be little pits or kind of rough but really lightly if this makes sense. Have I lucked out and saved the engine or not. I can't upload pics and am really disappointed cause I love this mill and really wanted to get a chance to enjoy it. I have cleaned everything and put it all back together , engine still has nice comp and sleeve and port seem ok. Should I just fire it and continue to run it and see how it goes?
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