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Went to fire it up and it was slow to turn over. The easy start started smoking a lil I sprayed wd 40 into the cylinder last night. Engine was a lil stiff turning it by the crank gear I think im going to lube it again then take a hair dryer to it to warm it up and try again. It sat pprobally a year or two.
 
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Went to fire it up and it was slow to turn over. The easy start started smoking a lil I sprayed wd 40 into the cylinder last night. Engine was a lil stiff turning it by the crank gear I think im going to lube it again then take a hair dryer to it to warm it up and try again. It sat pprobally a year or two.
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I've never used it but I heard after run oil works well if you're storing the car for the season or not plan on using it for a period of time. I can only imagine how my HPI Firestorm will be since I haven't ran her in at least 3 or 4 years....maybe more....
 
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luckysaturn13 said:
Went to fire it up and it was slow to turn over. The easy start started smoking a lil I sprayed wd 40 into the cylinder last night. Engine was a lil stiff turning it by the crank gear I think im going to lube it again then take a hair dryer to it to warm it up and try again. It sat pprobally a year or two.
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Was the engine ever fully broken in? If not that could be why it's tight. Or you just have really tight tolerances, I know the race engine in my late model is that way, I have to store it top dead or when the cylinder cools it shrinks around the piston and its a major bitch to get it turning over..
 
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It was broken it already. So here's where im at. When I first went to start the ez start motor was smoking a lil. I chalked it up to the cat hair on it from prior owner. Or engine slightly seized from long term storage. I took plug out and sprayed some wd 40 in it . Got it to spin over really well by hand then with the starter then I put the plug back in. If I held the easy start controller where only the motor light lit it it would turn over easy and spin quickly if I held it where it lit the motor and glow plug light it wouldnt turn over at all. I unhooked the plug wire and used a glow igniter and it turned over pretty quickly but wouldn't hit. So im wondering if A my ez start battery is almost shot from storage and B if I need a carb adjustment. I found the factory setting for the hsn but not the lsn. And in the owners manuel its saying the lsn adjustment is on the side of the carb barrel and the the idle adjustment is the small screw sticking up by throttle inlet which seems backwards to me. Im so close to having this thing running its driving me nutz!
 
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I've never used it but I heard after run oil works well if you're storing the car for the season or not plan on using it for a period of time. I can only imagine how my HPI Firestorm will be since I haven't ran her in at least 3 or 4 years....maybe more....
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Take the plug out then do a wd soak by applying every few hrs over a day or two then get it freed up
 
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luckysaturn13 said:
It was broken it already. So here's where im at. When I first went to start the ez start motor was smoking a lil. I chalked it up to the cat hair on it from prior owner. Or engine slightly seized from long term storage. I took plug out and sprayed some wd 40 in it . Got it to spin over really well by hand then with the starter then I put the plug back in. If I held the easy start controller where only the motor light lit it it would turn over easy and spin quickly if I held it where it lit the motor and glow plug light it wouldnt turn over at all. I unhooked the plug wire and used a glow igniter and it turned over pretty quickly but wouldn't hit. So im wondering if A my ez start battery is almost shot from storage and B if I need a carb adjustment. I found the factory setting for the hsn but not the lsn. And in the owners manuel its saying the lsn adjustment is on the side of the carb barrel and the the idle adjustment is the small screw sticking up by throttle inlet which seems backwards to me. Im so close to having this thing running its driving me nutz!
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The LSN is the one on the carb slide by the linkage idle should be just under the air filter. Could be a bad glow plug wire I was never a fan of EZ-start. You could also be experiencing vapor lock but using a hand held igniter and it works makes me think it's the wire or EZ-Start. I Always used a bump starter and igniter. We used after run even if The car sit for a day. Good insurance on high dollar mod motors.
 
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. finally figured out the pin for the black wire comming from the ez start controller was pushed back into the controller causing a bad circuit I took it apart and fixed it. Now its spinning over very quickly and both lights are lit up. Going to set low speed to factory setting and try to get it running tonight. Does any one by chance have a good close up pic of the front body mounts? I bought a kit but it has a bunch of extra parts and I want to have it right before I put the holes on my new shell. I dont have an old shell to line em up
 
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Got it running today! i think there was some gunk in the carb.I took the air filter out , backed the hsn all the way out, plugged my exhaust with with my finger , turned it over a bunch and then it started to spray fuel out the carb. Then I had fuel spraying all over once I got it back together. After a close look the head bolts were slightly loose. I tightened it up and was able to get it started at about half throttle. If I tried to let it idle it would die and if I revved it up and let off it would slowly come down then die. The throttle gap is correct. Not quite sure if its a lsn adjustment or something else. Maybe ill try the pinch test on the fuel lineCan you clean the lsn by unscreweing and letting fuel run threw it like the hsn? Im excited its running though!
 
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Could be air leak, hi temp rtv gasket seal the carb. You can get it in auto store. I think that's what's it's called. It's orange.
 
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Got it running! I loosened the lsn needle up a few turns. Got it started and worked the throttle for about half a tank. Then I slowly leaned it out til it would idle. After that I started tuning the hsn. When my tank was down to about an 1/8 it started running like a beast! going to the park tomorrow where I can tune it in a parking lot
 
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