How long does a piston/sleeve last?
06-11-2003, 04:03 PM
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How long does a piston/sleeve last?
I have a Savage 21 nitro truck and am just wondering roughly how long before i would need to replace the piston/sleeve?
Assume the engine is run with great gas, properly tune and maintained.
Assume the engine is run with great gas, properly tune and maintained.
06-11-2003, 07:10 PM
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How long does a piston/sleeve last?
Hi!
Many years if you treat it right.......minutes if you run it in a dirty environment and you set the needle too lean and don't maintain it properly ,wrong fuel,dirty airfilter,lean setting and so on and on and ....!
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Many years if you treat it right.......minutes if you run it in a dirty environment and you set the needle too lean and don't maintain it properly ,wrong fuel,dirty airfilter,lean setting and so on and on and ....!
Regards!
Jan K
Sweden
06-12-2003, 02:53 PM
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How long does a piston/sleeve last?
we have a 25 year old k&b and she still runs like day one. castor, castor and tlc and never without after run oil!!!
