Originally posted by havy
Dino,
The other day at a local championchip race I had trouble starting my engine. After several Glow plugs being burt w/o making an entire lap, I decided to retire my car for the day. Later I let my freind who has more experience w/ engines than I take it apart and revise it. It seems that the Comrod bushing broke causing damage to the piston, the sleeve had a minor scratch. The rest of the engine was fine. My friend found a piston from a RB engine that he had lying around that fit well and pinched well still, and we then matched a comrod from a Novamega sx12re. For the moment the engine has worked fine, but only has 2 tanks since the repare.
Is there anything I should be concerned about w/ this repair, or can I expect the motor to continue running well. This motor is aprox 1 gallon old. How long do you think I can expect it to last. I run Blue Thunder 30% and live in Puerto Rico.
The engine block and crank shaft look OK.
Thanks,
Havy
Dear Havy,
When your engine runs fine before but start to have some odd condition, like burn plug;hard to adjust;easy to cut out...ect. You must stop your engine right now and looking for where is wrong. Sometimes it always some parts has problem. When I meet this situation,I will put a white tissue outside of the tail pipe. Let the smoke spray on it and open the throttle a bit. If you find any impurity,that means your engine has some part fault. I will open this engine and check it carefully.
If your mixed engine work fine,congrats. If it will have some problems,when you start it at the first time you will know. But you better to check the compression,if the head shims are too much or not enough.