poppet valve maintenance - recommended !
Guys
Quick tip, it might be worthwhile taking your poppet valve out every couple of hundred hours, quick, cheap and easy job that might save you a lot of time and money down the track.
I did mine after 350 hrs, and the bolts were hard to get out, frozen in with a bit of ali corrosion, combined with threadlocker used on these bolts, meant a very careful inching of the bolts out so they did not snap.
Replaced the diaphragm and gasket and cleaned the seat as it looked like the poppet was sticking, everything else OK.
Worth pulling out semi regularly if only to pull the bolts out, wire btush clean and re-install or else you risk them snapping off.
Not much else to do with so many wind days.
Boston Whaler 235 Conquest......getting the flogging it was built for.
baron
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Date Joined: 28/07/12
Race is on
Hey John did you check this for the Australia Day race oh that's right I'm not taking the baron can you check the old mans verado haha
JohnF
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Date Joined: 07/07/10
Dear Baron von Mustard
Dear Baron von Mustard Guts
Its under control pal.....I have pinched the Stauf needle valve off the chook cooker and put it on the V-ROD, increased boost by 10 psi......250 hp no longer buddie, 350 neddies on 98 RON.....bring on the Australia day drag race to Rotto!
The BOSS is going down.
Boston Whaler 235 Conquest......getting the flogging it was built for.