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Read through all of this it tells you everthing about tuning it is long but you will learn alot from it also tune your lsn too dont just tune your hsn because you have to retune ever run if you want peak performance if you dont tune your lsn it could run lean one day and blow your motor
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/m_5116298/tm.htm
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/m_5116298/tm.htm
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Ya well It seems I flooded the engine pretty bad...I take of the glow plug and pull the starter cord and the gas just keeps shooting out...it almost seems like the engine is filling back up again before i can even get it all out...any ideas??
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turn the idle up clockwise a 1/2 turn and the high speed needle and low speed needle clockwise 1/2 turn, i am telling you this to lean out the motor a little and raise the idle so it will hopefully start easier.
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I got 2-3 feet of snow. i hate snow. it melts fast here in colorado though, but its been really wet from melting snow. but finally my street dried so today I was just about to go outside to breakin my car and it started snowing again. im ticked. i wish i lived in california or florida. i was gonna go to a nuggets game tonight and thats probably gonna be canceled for us. its suppost to snow 5-10 inches. snow is all bad. i cant believe people like snow. whats so cool about it or fun about it? it riuns plans its cold, you have to shovel. theres nothin good about it, i guess sleding is fun, as long as its dangerous and fast and you run the risk of goin to the er, thats the only fun sleding.lol. anyone wanna trade places??lol.
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Ya..we only got a couple of inches down in the valley but up in the mountains we got a couple feet...I like skiing....thats why I like snow....but I couldnt break in my car today either so it sucked.
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Hey...does it hurt the car to leave gas in it...havent used it for a while cause i couldnt get it started yesterday and it was snowing today, and I heard it was good to take the gas out but what do you guys think?
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i leav the gas in, its fine if the car isnt going to sit forever, and your tank is sealing good
i leav the gas in, its fine if the car isnt going to sit forever, and your tank is sealing good
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I don;t always run my engines dry and sometimes leave fuel in the lines but I have never had anything detrimental happen to the engines either.
Just going back to the tuning issue. If its flooding all the time its likely to be that the LSN is far too rich. Lean it up until the engine starts. This is not uncommon. Also factory needle settings are rarely correct so take them "with a grain of salt".
Also I find that unscrewing the plug all the time to drain it is a pain so sometimes you can drain it by tipping up and draining the fuel out the pipe and then try again. Its also a handy way to tell if the LSN needle is too rich. If you are having trouble starting and there's raw fuel coming out of the pipe when you tip it up, its definately too rich down low.
Just going back to the tuning issue. If its flooding all the time its likely to be that the LSN is far too rich. Lean it up until the engine starts. This is not uncommon. Also factory needle settings are rarely correct so take them "with a grain of salt".
Also I find that unscrewing the plug all the time to drain it is a pain so sometimes you can drain it by tipping up and draining the fuel out the pipe and then try again. Its also a handy way to tell if the LSN needle is too rich. If you are having trouble starting and there's raw fuel coming out of the pipe when you tip it up, its definately too rich down low.
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if im not mistaken the low speed needle should be about flush with the carb body, and the highspeed stetting verys from place to place (elevation) and even wheather when u run it, you will prolly have to adjust it a little every time u run, its just a fact of life in small block nitro.