Breaking in

[R6905]

Is there somebody that would break my engine in for me? like a company or something, cause i dont have a spare 4 ours, especailly with school and everything going on now. It would be great.... or am i just dreaming a similar dream to a lot of other people?




Brandon

[Noreaga]

Local hobby shop should be willing to do it for you, if you bought it from them...

[R6905]

yeah i guess they could, i asked them and the guy was like "man, that would take me like 4 hours, are you sure you cant do it yourself?"




Brandon

[outfitter540]

do it on a week end. unless you really trusted your hobby shop and approved of their break in procedure i would recomend doing it by your self. ive heard horror stories of hobbyshops setting your truck on a block and running it all the way to wide open without an airfilter on the first tank!!!!!:eek: :eek: :eek: plus breaking in an engine is part of the fun to me.:)

[RCRACER2471]

why would you want someone else to break in your engine??? Breaking in the engine is part of a learning experience...How are you going to learn anything if someone else does it for you???

[toddzilla]

who says it takes 4 hours anyway... shouldn't take more than an hour at the most...

unless you do that stupid idle through 5 tanks crap....

[JoeMAXX]

A proper break in takes at least a few hours, There are many procedures out there for different engines. If you take in account for cooling of the engine after each tank of fuel and runtimes. I have never broke in an engine in one hour. My first tank takes more then a 1/2 hour alone.... 15 minutes of run time and 15 to 30 minutes of cool time. I do this for the first 4 tanks while running rich and gradually leaning the engine on the HSN.


Quick breakins will decrease the life of an engine because they need to expand and contract.

For you new guys reading this it is better to set the engine at bottom dead center. Which means turning the flywheel at the bottom of the stroke and letting the engine cool until it is below at least 100 Deg. You should also set the engine this way when you park it because you do not want it at the Top when you put them away.

This is just a suggestion

[Coconut]

Personally I like Stephen Bess's break-in published in RCCA. Breaks a engine in quickly without all the pre-mature wear that you get by too rich/cool break-in. Most call it heat cycling. You end-up with a engine with great compression and little wear. If your interested it available on the Starting Grid conference. Basically what it does is break the engine in at normal operating temperatures by running it slightly rich for short periods with complete cooling in between. You end-up with a engine that the P/S pinch is right for the normal running rsather than the wear and lower compression you end-up with from breaking it in very rich at too cool temperature. Since using this method My engines last longer and have way better compression which of course means power.

[nique]

hey man i dont do anything right now cause of my knee so if you want i can do it for ya and the only thing i would charge is some money for fuel cause i'm fixing to do some other engine's for friend's here in town and one more wouldnt hurt

[SkillSte]

I am NEVER getting my LSH to run in any of my engines again. They do it in about half an hour including tuning!! And they over lean them by as much as one full turn. I say do it yourself properly.