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Lanny Fetterman

Joined: 10 Jan 2006
Posts: 37
Location: Catawissa Pa.

Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2007 11:38 pm Post subject: Dodged a small bullet, learned a lesson!

Hi all, Just thought I would share a lesson I learned today. I was going 

to fog my 503 for winter storage today. Since the FSII was on the trailer, 

in the hanger and it was raining, I figured I would just take the carbs off 

and fog the crankcase without starting the engine. Seemed like a good idea 

at the time, but I digress.

	Anyway, I put the little plastic straw thingie on the fogging can, stuck 

the straw into the intake and pushed the button on the aerosol can. In the 

blink of an eye the plastic straw blew off the can and went into the 

crankcase, CRAP!! Who would have ever predicted that.

	I could see the very top of the plastic straw standing straight up in the 

crankcase. I wasn`t sure if it was sitting on the bottom of the case or if 

it could fall further and disappear. Long story short, I used a four 

fingered grabbing tool to pull it back to the intake side of the cylinder, 

then grabbed it with a pair of needle nose pliers, and pulled it out. This 

all took about half an hour from the beginning of the circus to the end. I 

think I had some divine help as the straw was very slippery from the 

fogging oil.

	What I learned is, never use the straw to inject fogging oil into the 

crankcase! All`s well that ends well. Lanny  N598LF  : )

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Lanny Fetterman Firestar II N598LF

jindoguy(at)gmail.com
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Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2007 6:02 am Post subject: Dodged a small bullet, learned a lesson!

Lanny, Back in the days of the Mikuni pumper carb, I was trying to get

a Zenoah to run. We were trying to get it started and I used a little

WD-40 as starting fluid. Of course I used the little tube to direct

the spray right down the carb throat.

Spray down the carb throat, the engine runs a bit then stops, repeat.

Just keep spraying, engine keeps running.

Can runs out, engine stops.

Hey, where did that tube go?

Pull the spark plug and there was a tiny piece of red tube lying on it.

All sorts of foul words directed at self and most everything else I

could think to blame for my stupidity.

Order head and base gasket and new Mikuni slide carb.

A few days later, disassemble engine and look for more pieces.

Not one to be found. Flush engine real good with WD-40 and no darn red

tube pieces.

Reassemble engine with new carb and reinstall.

Vroom.

Yeah, no little tubes anywhere near an intake, ever! 



Rick



On Nov 10, 2007 7:32 PM, Lanny Fetterman <donaho(at)uplink.net> wrote:

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         Hi all, Just thought I would share a lesson I learned today. I was going

 to fog my 503 for winter storage today. Since the FSII was on the trailer,

 in the hanger and it was raining, I figured I would just take the carbs off

 and fog the crankcase without starting the engine. Seemed like a good idea

 at the time, but I digress.

         Anyway, I put the little plastic straw thingie on the fogging can, stuck

 the straw into the intake and pushed the button on the aerosol can. In the

 blink of an eye the plastic straw blew off the can and went into the

 crankcase, CRAP!! Who would have ever predicted that.

         I could see the very top of the plastic straw standing straight up in the

 crankcase. I wasn`t sure if it was sitting on the bottom of the case or if

 it could fall further and disappear. Long story short, I used a four

 fingered grabbing tool to pull it back to the intake side of the cylinder,

 then grabbed it with a pair of needle nose pliers, and pulled it out. This

 all took about half an hour from the beginning of the circus to the end. I

 think I had some divine help as the straw was very slippery from the

 fogging oil.

         What I learned is, never use the straw to inject fogging oil into the

 crankcase! All`s well that ends well. Lanny  N598LF  : )

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