06-06-2013, 09:05 PM | #1 |
Getting Wild
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Location: Hudson Valley, NY
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Broken rod?
So... If you take the spark plug out on an old kf82, can you see the top of the piston? If that is what I am seeing, when I manually turn the drive clutch, the piston does not move. I am thinking broken rod... i can only turn the motor over about half way by hand, then it is too difficult to move. the s/g wont turn it over at all. This motor has been apart before, but I forgot if the piston lines up with the spark plug hole or if it is off to the side. Just want to know what I am seeing...
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06-07-2013, 05:33 AM | #2 |
Getting Wild
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Re: Broken rod?
Yes you are seeing the top of piston
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06-07-2013, 05:47 AM | #3 |
Gone Wild
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Location: Austin, Tx area
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Re: Broken rod?
Rod broken for sure. Not uncommon....
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06-10-2013, 12:45 PM | #4 |
Photoshop Guy
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Location: Canal Fulton, OH
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Re: Broken rod?
Yep. Broken rod is what happened to my cart (which was the reason the the cart was given to me in the first place). Is there a dent in the back side of the engine block where the rod tried to escape?
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06-11-2013, 05:07 AM | #5 |
Gone Wild
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Re: Broken rod?
Hopefully it's salvageable. Sometimes the rod breaking takes a nice chunk of the bottom of the cylinder or cracks it. I've got my fingers crossed for ya.....
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06-11-2013, 07:18 AM | #6 |
Photoshop Guy
Join Date: Aug 2012
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Re: Broken rod?
On my cart the rod did chunk out a decent size portion of the cylinder, but when I rebuilt it, I lucked out and the broken part of the cylinder didn't reach high enough to affect compression. The rebuild attempt failed because I used a replacement crankshaft from another used motor that was apparently egged-out. It would knock at higher rpms and when I pulled the side cover, the rod had already loosened up after just a few hours of driving. Live and learn...
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