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malpass

Joined: 27 Aug 2007
Posts: 39
Location: Marietta, Georgia

Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2008 12:46 pm Post subject: decorboning

Mike Stratman of CPS has a piston decarbon kit for soaking pistons over night. I have heard people say that it doesnt do a good job in completely cleaning the ring groves and rings.

 

I my R/C days, we use to take our badly baked 4 stroke engines and dump them into a crock pot (not Mamma's), w/ straight antifreeze. let them soak overnight and the next morning they looked like new. Didnt need to do anything else but oil them. All the black carbon around the mufflers and headers were completely gone. A real miracle.

 

I am wondering if there would be any problems with soaking Rotax pistons overnight in the heated crock pot. I cant imagine any adverse effects, but someone may know some magic situations here that would indicate this is a no-no. ????

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Lynn Matteson

Joined: 10 Jan 2006
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Location: Grass Lake, Michigan

Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2008 1:58 pm Post subject: decorboning

I used to do the same thing, but of course we were using a different  

fuel in those babies than we use in our planes. At least I don't use  

nitro and alcohol in my engine...............yet. So I'm thinking  

that the glycol and crock pot thing wouldn't do much for the  

carbon....but I could be wrong.



Lynn Matteson

Kitfox IV Speedster

Jabiru 2200, 562 hrs, and counting...all systems are go.

On Sep 27, 2008, at 4:46 PM, malpass wrote:



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 Mike Stratman of CPS has a piston decarbon kit for soaking pistons  

 over night. I have heard people say that it doesnt do a good job in  

 completely cleaning the ring groves and rings.



 I my R/C days, we use to take our badly baked 4 stroke engines and  

 dump them into a crock pot (not Mamma's), w/ straight antifreeze.  

 let them soak overnight and the next morning they looked like new.  

 Didnt need to do anything else but oil them. All the black carbon  

 around the mufflers and headers were completely gone. A real miracle.



 I am wondering if there would be any problems with soaking Rotax  

 pistons overnight in the heated crock pot. I cant imagine any  

 adverse effects, but someone may know some magic situations here  

 that would indicate this is a no-no. ????





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