Broke another piston...
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That was mean, Chad!!!
Oh come on Josh, with all the bad new going on, I thought I would give everybody a laugh... Sorry
Well if I cracked another piston, It would force me to build so I wouldn't be to unhappy. And now that my truck is just a trailer puller anyway, it sits for weeks at a time now, so it wouldn't be too much of a loss anyway.
I just realized that that motor has half the amount of head bolts the ford 6 leakers have...:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:
Not sure, we were having trouble tuning it for a while, and found that the carb gasket had an air leak, and the head bolts started to get loose, so the piston got hot a couple of time after break in. We burned up about 3 glow plugs in 1 tank, then went back to see what the deal was, and that's what we found. Tightened the head, sealed the carb, and it ran fine after that. I've ran almost 3 gallons of Nitro through it in total.
The funny thing was, it was running the best it has ever ran right up until the piston blew...
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Do it!Those rods are actually for the motor I have, but they are for a Diesel Conversion kit.
Do it!
The down side is, you have to have their mixed fuel to run it, so you just can't run to the local Hobby Shop and buy some Nitro... They do look fun though, I hear they smoke a little black, instead of white.