I found a piston & rings, ordered this morning. If it gets here by friday we'll still make the old timers run.

Bill, yeah it was running a hot plug. NGK website calls out a long 9 plug, This sled was running short reach 7's.

Also Pam's dad was mixing 20:1

I'm sure he had to run that hot plug at 20:1 to keep if from fouling to the point it wouldn't spark. The short reach 7's he had in there were black. I just replaced what he had been running with a brand new pair of the same plugs but I mixed closer to 40:1

Leaner mix with that hot plug I'm sure is likely what did it in.

Dammit.

frown

Well, I'll be picking up a pair of 9's for plugs & I'll stick the new piston & rings in & keep a close eye on it.

I'll be checking the crank seal on the PTO side too.


Something clever here.