Re: KPack's 1954 Panama

Posted by HH56 On 2020/9/18 9:53:12

Hopefully it comes down on its own. You can do a search for the exact threads but there have been a couple of people on the forum that started a long dormant engine and ran it on old stale gas in the tank. The engines ran reasonably well for a long sitting engine and was shut down. Posters came back a day to a week later to restart the engine without success. After checking the usual they did a compression check and found several cylinders with no compression. Further investigation found valves stuck so solidly it took brute force to free them. At least with only one cylinder and your valve still turning it has not reached that point but I would suggest you keep checking and turning it frequently so the old varnish deposits do not stick that valve solidly.