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Spare Firestorm Engine
Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2023 12:35 pm
by ItsaKeeper
Hi - I am a bungling amateur (but keen to learn) when it comes to engine maintenance and my firestorm will need valve clearance checks soon. I was wondering whether it would be a good idea to get a spare engine to practice on. I could then follow the advice in the workshop page when it came to engine matters on the dummy engine before messing up my good one.
Just wondered if any other forum members have been down this path or would recommend it?
Thanks
Re: Spare Firestorm Engine
Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2023 1:04 pm
by fabiostar
If you could find one cheap enough yeah be handy to practice on
.. finding one might be the problem tho.
Re: Spare Firestorm Engine
Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2023 1:35 pm
by tony.mon
You could buy one with valve damage cheaply, and repair that.
That way you get to learn how to set valve timing, and end up with a useable spare- or sell it.
Re: Spare Firestorm Engine
Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2023 7:43 am
by ItsaKeeper
Thanks Fabiostar & Tony for your feedback, I'll start looking for a repairable engine
Re: Spare Firestorm Engine
Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2023 12:18 pm
by fabiostar
ItsaKeeper wrote: ↑Tue Aug 22, 2023 7:43 am
Thanks Fabiostar & Tony for your feedback, I'll start looking for a repairable engine
gotta be loads of broken storm engines with a front cct failure, get one of those and buy a rear head(half the price or less of a front), you can mod a rear head to fit the front cylinder, they are a mirror image of each other, just blank the old cct hole and open the blanked part in the new head, job done
Re: Spare Firestorm Engine
Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2023 8:34 pm
by sirch345
ItsaKeeper wrote: ↑Mon Aug 21, 2023 12:35 pm
Hi - I am a bungling amateur (but keen to learn) when it comes to engine maintenance and my firestorm will need valve clearance checks soon. I was wondering whether it would be a good idea to get a spare engine to practice on. I could then follow the advice in the workshop page when it came to engine matters on the dummy engine before messing up my good one.
Just wondered if any other forum members have been down this path or would recommend it?
Thanks
That sounds like a brilliant idea
Chris.
Re: Spare Firestorm Engine
Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2023 7:28 pm
by tony.mon
-except you still have to go to the trouble of installing it to see if it runs ok....