Does the engine need to broken in again after a rebuild? I'm helping my friend rebuild his engine and all we're doing is replacing the conrod. The piston and sleeve are fine.
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Does the engine need to broken in again after a rebuild? I'm helping my friend rebuild his engine and all we're doing is replacing the conrod. The piston and sleeve are fine.
What do you mean?It would be cool if you can replace the rod and crank with a stroker setup, is that possible?
What do you mean?
It would be cool if you can replace the rod and crank with a stroker setup, is that possible?
Sorry for not replying to this thread sooner but life happened and I had to put the hobby down for a month or so.
So now to explain what's happened thus far.
Literally the day after this thread was posted, my engine spun a conrod bearing and quit. So I tracked down a new conrod from Kyosho specialty website. Unfortunately they didn't have any engine parts on site and had to ordered straight from Kyosho, which took about 3 weeks.
So in the meantime I tore the engine down, cleaned it, and stored it until my new conrod came. It got here today and the engine is back together with good compression and fired right up after 2 rips on the starter. It's running great and moves under its own power as of two hours of this being posted.
The only issue its having is it dies when I brake after a WOT pass. It's launching perfectly and getting up to speed well. If I let off the throttle closes to its neutral possision, it idles down and rolls until I apply the throttle again and keeps going. Only when I hit the brakes and turn in either direction, it bogs and dies.
So that's pretty much the gist of what's happened over the past month until now. Given the current and only issue I'm having, I'm very satisfied with myself for identifying and fixing the problem although it was very apparent to me what had happened to begin with.
And this is today after I got it back together.
The only issue its having is it dies when I brake after a WOT pass. It's launching perfectly and getting up to speed well. If I let off the throttle closes to its neutral possision, it idles down and rolls until I apply the throttle again and keeps going. Only when I hit the brakes and turn in either direction, it bogs and dies.
Only while braking and turning. Carb stays open when the throttle is at the neutral position.Does it die every time you hit the brakes or only while braking and turning at the same time?
Have you checked to make sure your carb isn't closing when you brake?
I don't understand why it wouldn't do it during normal braking, turning shouldn't have an affect on the engine.Only while braking and turning. Carb stays open when the throttle is at the neutral position.