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Old 04-17-2011 | 03:34 PM
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Dr. Blockhed
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Default Buggy engine turning off...

Just had to swap out my chassis as it was bent by a friend driving into a curb, I took it out today for the first time and found the glow plug was shot, so I swapped that out.

Buggy ran great, probably better than it was running before my friend smashed it up. It turned off about half tank through. I couldn't get the pull start to budge.Igave it a few minutes and it pulled w/ some encouragment. Car started up again and ran well, it seemed to be running rich (last time I had it out it was about 20 degrees cooler), so Igave it an 1/8th turn it really ran well. After running it for about 10 minutes it turned off again. This time I was able to restart without any problems w/ the pull start.

Any suggestions/ideas what is going on? I don't have a temp gun, it was running strong, nice trail of blue smoke. Could it have been too rich? It died when I was on throttle, didn't have any issues coming from a dead stop/idling. Could the engine be getting too hot, evven though there was enough smoke and the engine was bogging at all?