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Rapide sat for 12 years ! Any tips B4 I start her ?
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<blockquote data-quote="Ken Tidswell" data-source="post: 134035" data-attributes="member: 3355"><p>look before you leap, cleaning the sludge out of the oiltank is no simple matter. it is designed to trap the sludge. drain it</p><p>take out the feed pipe and clean observe the grot in the back of the tank. It will consist of large idler fragments and a graey paste from piston debris . I fished out a perfect quartze crystal about 1/4'' of an inch long. drain out all the oil , clean out the oilfilter and fit a new one befor you do anything else fill the oil tank after repacing the oil strainer/ feed pipe.Check if you have a spark with a new plug. If not clean and adjust the points. try again. If no joy spend several hundred £'s on a rebuild. Doin't ask me how i know this. fill the oilfilter chamber with a pressure oilcan frm the hole in the timing cover. And take out the oil jet holder in the timing cover, pump oil until some flows out of the top appears it will take time, It takes about 2 and ahalf minutes for oil to start circulating so don't rev the engine in the mean time IF it starts. Best of luck</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ken Tidswell, post: 134035, member: 3355"] look before you leap, cleaning the sludge out of the oiltank is no simple matter. it is designed to trap the sludge. drain it take out the feed pipe and clean observe the grot in the back of the tank. It will consist of large idler fragments and a graey paste from piston debris . I fished out a perfect quartze crystal about 1/4'' of an inch long. drain out all the oil , clean out the oilfilter and fit a new one befor you do anything else fill the oil tank after repacing the oil strainer/ feed pipe.Check if you have a spark with a new plug. If not clean and adjust the points. try again. If no joy spend several hundred £'s on a rebuild. Doin't ask me how i know this. fill the oilfilter chamber with a pressure oilcan frm the hole in the timing cover. And take out the oil jet holder in the timing cover, pump oil until some flows out of the top appears it will take time, It takes about 2 and ahalf minutes for oil to start circulating so don't rev the engine in the mean time IF it starts. Best of luck [/QUOTE]
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