Piston Rings ??

[ninanina]

After have a none running 4hp we've put engine oil down the plug hole! It now runs fine...<br /><br />Does this point to piston ring wear?? or some other problem?<br /><br />Also if its not piston ring wear could it be that the fuel/oil mixture wants enrinching a bit??<br /><br />Thanks for any help

 

[Laddies]

Re: Piston Rings ??

It sounds like the rings were stuck, run a tank at 24 to 1 and then try it at 50 to 1 it wiil probably fine

 

[ninanina]

Re: Piston Rings ??

Hi Laddies<br />Well we've run it as much as we can but it keeps stopping. We've put down some Quicksilver PowerTune cleaner & run that through a couple of times. <br /><br />It seems to run for a good while then stop & the only way of starting it again is to shove engine oil down it's plug'ol again!!!! <br /><br />Any ideas what this might diagnose??<br /><br />Thanks again all

 

[Laddies]

Re: Piston Rings ??

If it starts by just adding oil in the cyl then you have low compression and need to rering the engine