Re: Someone hooked the battery up backwards / new member 55 Clipper Deluxe

Posted by humanpotatohybrid On 2021/12/10 23:25:49

Good advice. Tomorrow I'm planning on trying to take off the right-side head to look at the cylinders. If I'm able to get it off and the cylinders look fine enough, I'll take off the other head and try to tap the pistons with a block to get them unstuck. Taking the heads off also allows me to make sure the valves are unstuck without risking hitting the pistons with them by tapping them in place. The crankcase idea is not a bad one; it's just that the engine has been stuck for like 6 months and at this point I'd rather try to look in it directly so I know what I'm dealing with.

Definitely I'll need to change the motor oil before I run it. I'm not as concerned with running old oil for a minute as much as that it's overfilled by probably 2 inches on the dipstick from the Diesel and obviously thinned out likewise (probably about 2 quarts of Diesel in there now). Putting fresh 15W30 in it will cost a whole $15.