DEAL, pair 200 JOHNSONS

[Monkey Butler]

Originally Posted by THEFERMANATOR

And they are known for sticking rings that take out a cylinder as I have Bradfords old engine here and that is exactly what happened to it.

Seems like my buudy has the same problem. Is there a common cause for this? Is it carbon or something else?

Will doing a Ring Free or Seafoam decarb help? If not can you fix just the one bad hole?

[THEFERMANATOR]

Originally Posted by Monkey Butler

Seems like my buudy has the same problem. Is there a common cause for this? Is it carbon or something else?

Will doing a Ring Free or Seafoam decarb help? If not can you fix just the one bad hole?

Being a large 2 stroke gas hog, they do carbon the rings up pretty bad. When they get carboned up they normally gouge teh cylinder walls and scratch which is where the compression loss comes in. Running the snot out of them, or decarboning them does the trick to prevent it from happening. Once they stick a ring, unfortunately you have to tear em down and have that hole bored and a new piston put in.