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November 10, 2015 at 3:05 pm
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yeah, some explanation behind the appearance is it sat outside with the head off, under cover, two winters ago before I got ‘organized.’
Fortunately I did spray oil into the cylinders so no rust in there, but the rest of the motor accumulated the usual weathering.
The helicoil installed wasn’t the sleeve type, it was the screw in wire type. So that was wrong. I suspect that a portion of that may have broken off into the cylinder and stuck to the piston, lit up like a christmas tree, and melted the piston down. Who knows. The cylinder head had melted aluminum all over by the plug orifice on cylinder #1.