Originally Posted by
quozl
I know this is to late, but if you didn't, you should ALWAYS ALWAYS pull down any new motor and clean it thoroughly before running it for the first time. Quite often you will find small metal shavings left over from the manufacturing process. These can obviously cause major damage to your motor like you have described.
Regardless I would return the motor to the distributor for him examine. In most cases like these the distributor will provide the customer with a new Piston, Liner, Rod if it can be shown the goods were faulty.
Cheers Alastair
Sorrry quozl, cant agree with you. Pulling a NEW motor apart looking for metal shavings is something that should not have to be done! You dont pay top dollar for a new engine to pull it to bits, or do ya? This is surely a manufacturing issue. Maybe the person on the assembly line had a hang over that day! lol! Maybe the engine company has some quality issues? I have ran several motors in now without any problems, and have had good life out of them all. (OS ENGINES gotta love em!) I work for a company that manufactures transmissions for real full size buggies, the boss would die of heart failure if he thought metal shavings were in our trannys.