Originally Posted by
jeromerc
Nope that is not what I am saying.....I am saying that it was ran rich (new to nitro) was always told to make it smoke so that is what I did, and I got about 4 gallons out of it, then I bought a new Orion engine learned how to tune and got 7 gallons out of it. And hearing that running it rich doesn't kill a front bearing and have any issue on the engine is just the exact opposite of what I went through.
Just becouse you were new to nitro and you kill a engine in 4 gal, it dont mean that running a engine with a rich lsn is the cause of it dieing early for you to say that for sure.Think about a metal shield bearing that onroad engine use,You can see day light thru it,so if you break in that engine with a lsn rich you think that bearing is going to be toast? It dont work that way,If a bearing goes bad is becouse of dirt got in the bearing, It wore out and the crank is off center and the oil in the fuel can not seal any more.