tylerjackson

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I just put a new sh.18 in my lightning and im now trting to break it in. after a full pulls it sounds like it back fires. does any one know what this is?

cummins driver

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I havent ever heard a nitro engine backfire that i can think of. Does it make the noise while you are cranking or right when you stop cranking?

I have however, had one of my old nitro engines run backwards. It was wild to see a nitro with no reverse start driving in reverse!

tylerjackson

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its not really like a real cars backfire but more like its building up pressure and then releasing it all at once. like a release vaulve on a air compresser.

ehroof

maybe something is clogging the exhaust port or its building up too much fuel and giving an air release type of sound?

Cam_132

i have never head of a 2 stroke engine back fireing...

humn...

firebird78

does it feel different when u pull on it???...does it try to start???...

rc-psycho

are you sure it just not the compression you are hereing bro

ehroof

it could be that too, the engine is new and has alot of pinch

amf66

That's what I was thinking. I have had engines so tight that the starter was hard to pull.

rc-psycho

my sh.18 was like that ..its tight with alot of punch to it

tylerjackson

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The way i meant it was that its compression. pull, pull, pull, large pop of air. this is my first new motor so ive never encountered this before. the pinch between the piston and sleeve is ridiculous. I have to almost stand on the car to be able to pull the starter.

rc-psycho

yeah thats the way mine was .and still like that some times ...lot of compression there bro .did it start up

tylerjackson

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not yet. its really starting to p*ss me off. I think i may of upset my neighbors with all the cussing.

jpilkinton

Did you adjust your needle settings? Sometimes the factory setting are so rich that the engine won't start. Did you check your plug and igniter?

jamstar47

mine used to backfire when the plug is almost done because the gas getting out of the engine and into the hot manifold and exploding making the backfireing sound

Chubbysdad

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also heating it up is a help

ehroof

sounds like your flooding it out, take the plug out, turn it over, pull the pullstart and let the excess fuel out and put the plug back in and try again. Also check your needle settings, 2 1/2 out on the high and 4 out on the low. If its cold out, heat the engine with a heat gun or a blow dryer to get it started.

firebird78

lol....whenever I get a new car I havta take it across the street and show it off to my neighbor and his wife or they get upset...they are an older couple...they love to watch me run them up and down the street....he tells me my 1/8th buggies sound like p*ss*d off chansaws on steriods...lol

tylerjackson

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i eventually got it to run about 15 minutes of breakin done.

ehroof

its a start, lol

tylerjackson

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I believe the needles my of been a bit off, between that and the 7,682 pulls it took it finally started.