after a motor has been sitting a couple of years, I'd imagine it's worth lubing the cylinders, maybe with a squirt of oil through each sparkplug hole, before trying to start it. A year ago I started a long-sitter (more like four years) and ruined a piston that had dried out. I'm not an expert, but maybe someone more knowledgeable will chime in Alan Andrew wrote: >My 84 Westy, with a Digifant II I4 conversion, has been sitting a couple >years without running. How likely is that the injectors will be clogged >and/or sticky? Should I run some kind of cleaner through them before trying >to start it? > >I drained the gas tank and the old gas wasn't nearly as bad as I expected, >but I've heard that smaller quanties of gas will go bad and gum up faster. > >Thanks, AWG >-- > > |
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