Re: Morticus

Posted by HH56 On 2023/7/18 21:28:23

Congratulations and maybe commiserations. The car looks like a great start but if there is a chance you ran the engine with old stale gas you could be in for an interesting experience unsticking the valves.

You describe a classic symptom that the engine runs well, it is shut off for a day or two and when restarting is tried again valves are found to be stuck. The stale gas apparently has something mixed in that deteriorates and when it hits something hot like a valve stem turns into an almost glue like substance that deposits on the stems sticking the valves in the guides. Several have had this experience and some had them stuck so badly it took brute force and damaged valves before they came free. Hopefully you will not have that situation.