I've been trying to get my Werks Racing Team Line B3 engine started for the past two days and i still cant get it. i have a starter box for it, and the starter box battery is fully charged. but the piston keeps getting stuck at top dead center. I tried putting after run oil in it so it would move a little easier but that barely helps. i've been using a heat gun to get the sleeve to expand and that works for a little bit, but when i go to start the egnine, the piston gets stuck again. so i pulled the glow plug out, put in some more after run oil, and used a screw driver to gently turn the flywheel to get the piston unstuck. this worked but..... i put the glow plug back in, put the ignitor on it and then put it on the starter box. the engine turns over but now it doesn't want to start! [:@] then i noticed all this unburned fuel coming out the exhaust, it must've been flooded so i called it a day. i clean out the engine and emptied all the unburned fuel that pooled in the pipe, and cleaned the engine out with denatured alcohol and relubed it with after run oil. do you guys think this will help now? i got it started friday afternoon for about ten seconds then it cut off. any tips on what i can do to keep the piston from getting stuck so much? it's driving me up the wall. by the way, anyone know the factory needle settings for the B3? it came with no intruction manual, nor does it say the settings on the werks racing website.

When I have a stiff engine to start, I do the folowing...

1) reset all the needles to default settings as described in engine manual.

2) couple of drops of after run oil in the through the glo-hole

3) tighten up glow plug, then back it out 1 turn, so it's a loose.

4) move the flywheel to the top (just turn it with a finger until you can't any more) in the OPPOSITE direction to the engine rotation (this gives the starter box a kind of 'run-up'), so it does almost a full turn before it gets to TDC again.

5) Press hard on the starter box.

I've never had to heat an engine up. Be patient and persistent, it will fire. Be very careful of fuel locking (which shouldn't happen with the plug a turn out).

When it gets running, leave the glo starter on for about 30 seconds, then tighten up the glo plug. If it stalls, repeat the entire process.

Heat the engine with a heat gun and loosen the glow plug till it starts. Yes check to make sure the needles are set at factory settings and use a hot plug till you start leaning it out.