RE: How to clean engine internals.
Okay I am going to go old school on this and suggest WD-40 as an engine cleaner and lubricant. WD 40 is a very old school trick that many of us old timers use to clean and lube R/C engines. It can be used as an after run oil when you going to run the next weekend. Do not let the fact I have only posted a few times on this forum be my experience with R/Cs I have been a nitro guy since 1999 and have some experience with many different engine manuactures.
We used to use in the old days whenmostly castor oil was thelubricant in Nitro Fuelfor engines and we left fuel in them for weeks then the engine would gum up with deposits.
Nice thing about WD 40 is as an afterrun for short term is it cleans all the gum out of the engine and will not hydra lock it if you put too much in.
It will clean up most deposits in the engine and flow thru than lube up everything while it cleans.
Think of it as Duct Tape more than 1000 things you can do with it.
I am not blowing smoke here because it has the
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