I never got the dam thing to run right or ever to get it started without fighting tooth and nail every inch of the way. I posted when I originally started to break it in a while back (long winded post if you remember) but today was the straw that broke my back. After 20mins of it pizzing fuel out the exhaust and only getting a sputter every now and then, I finally tore it apart to see wth was going on. Lookie what I found:
![[Image: piston.jpg]](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v141/Leo-Nardo/piston.jpg)
![[Image: wearline.jpg]](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v141/Leo-Nardo/wearline.jpg)
![[Image: rod.jpg]](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v141/Leo-Nardo/rod.jpg)
It seems that the cylinder and piston are not matched and it wore evenly around the cylinder everywhere but one spot, you can see the darkening of the cylinder where it is and the whole side of the piston that was pointed towards that spot. I also noticed that there are metal chips from the rod that were damaging the top of the cylinder as well. This dam motor would never start for me, I have only run about 6tanks of Byrons 25% race fuel through it and its been a booger every inch of those tanks. It was always spitting tons of fuel out the exhaust during the attempted startings and never fired enough to stay running. Temps during after cycleing were in the 220-240 range consistantly and tons of nice smoke. It idled for the most part, only had to play with the idle screw just a bit for it to stay on after break in. So now I'm pizzed off severly, I was going to run this weekend and I really wanted to hit the berwyn weekend as well. I cant run out and dump $240 on a new piston/sleeve/rod set, I need Nova to replace this damn thing. Wonder how long that will take :'( . Guess my new LST2 gets to sit and look pretty a little while longer.
BTW thats some wicked factory work on the case and cylinder
. Now if I can get a running motor, I would appreciate that $400 much more.
It seems that the cylinder and piston are not matched and it wore evenly around the cylinder everywhere but one spot, you can see the darkening of the cylinder where it is and the whole side of the piston that was pointed towards that spot. I also noticed that there are metal chips from the rod that were damaging the top of the cylinder as well. This dam motor would never start for me, I have only run about 6tanks of Byrons 25% race fuel through it and its been a booger every inch of those tanks. It was always spitting tons of fuel out the exhaust during the attempted startings and never fired enough to stay running. Temps during after cycleing were in the 220-240 range consistantly and tons of nice smoke. It idled for the most part, only had to play with the idle screw just a bit for it to stay on after break in. So now I'm pizzed off severly, I was going to run this weekend and I really wanted to hit the berwyn weekend as well. I cant run out and dump $240 on a new piston/sleeve/rod set, I need Nova to replace this damn thing. Wonder how long that will take :'( . Guess my new LST2 gets to sit and look pretty a little while longer.
BTW thats some wicked factory work on the case and cylinder
. Now if I can get a running motor, I would appreciate that $400 much more.