m3lyc Posted April 3, 2009 Share Posted April 3, 2009 (edited) Erm, little help. Its running on the slightly rich side, good trail of smoke, but it keeps killing glow plugs. Gone through 5 in the last 2 days . Cant put finger on it, i even flushed the engine and fuel tank out to see if there was any crap in there that shouldnt have been. Is it a new engine job do u reckon? If so, would the Picco P3 pullstart be OK for it? Thanks. Lee. Edited April 3, 2009 by m3lyc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madmarder Posted April 3, 2009 Share Posted April 3, 2009 Erm, little help. Its running on the slightly rich side, good trail of smoke, but it keeps killing glow plugs. Gone through 5 in the last 2 days . Cant put finger on it, i even flushed the engine and fuel tank out to see if there was any crap in there that shouldnt have been. Is it a new engine job do u reckon? If so, would the Picco P3 pullstart be OK for it? Thanks. Lee. take your head off andlook at your piston,if its pitted on the top you may need to add a head shim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaxHeadroom Posted April 3, 2009 Share Posted April 3, 2009 take your head off andlook at your piston,if its pitted on the top you may need to add a head shim Just to hijack the thread with a noob question, can you explain why this would happen? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m3lyc Posted April 3, 2009 Author Share Posted April 3, 2009 lol had a brainwave. i found out my old engine out of the thunder tiger mta4 that i sold, but i kept the old engine. its the exact same engine! and I know it runs sweet as a nut. so now ive put old cooiling head on new engine, old carb, but now ive run into a problem, i cant get the flywheel off! its usually easy for me, usually comes straight off, but its like its welded on lol. ive scratched the old crankcase to **** and bent a screwdriver and snapped an old (luckily) hex driver trying to get the thing off to no avail. have to wait till i sell my gh world tour for another lol. bugger. Oh well it will be worth the wait. Lee. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madmarder Posted April 3, 2009 Share Posted April 3, 2009 lol had a brainwave. i found out my old engine out of the thunder tiger mta4 that i sold, but i kept the old engine. its the exact same engine! and I know it runs sweet as a nut. so now ive put old cooiling head on new engine, old carb, but now ive run into a problem, i cant get the flywheel off! its usually easy for me, usually comes straight off, but its like its welded on lol. ive scratched the old crankcase to **** and bent a screwdriver and snapped an old (luckily) hex driver trying to get the thing off to no avail. have to wait till i sell my gh world tour for another lol. bugger. Oh well it will be worth the wait. Lee. the piston pits because it fires too soon,the head shim would put the timing right Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m3lyc Posted April 3, 2009 Author Share Posted April 3, 2009 lol someone slap me in the head and call me silly! the glow starter had died. sitting here with 3 good plugs now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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