No Break-In!!!

[ttuzun]

Its been a while since i bought my savage. (abt a year&half) It is my first Nitro RC. I couldnt even start up the engine for a long time (moving). Now i wanted to get into it and started reading the forums again. Its been a long time and i dont actually remember if i did the break-in or not. I know its a big mistake not to do it, but what if i havent? It was running fine when i was playing around with it (except some spur gears destructions but i fixed it)

What happens when break-in is not properly done?
Is there anything that can be done to make for the lack of break-in later on in the engines lifetime. If there is how?
If there is nothing how bad is it?

Thank you

[wildchild27]

if you didnt do the break in then you might have ruined the motor stressed the conrod and lost a lot of pinch which you could get a new piston and sleeve with conrod and start all over and that would be your best bet.

[Dreadnaught]

here we go again. :duh:

[newbe5.9]

I m sorry to ask this but some guys are saying that a motor has a short life why burn away 3-6 tanks breakin now these are racers are racing motors different from what we use

[Bankrupter]

I m sorry to ask this but some guys are saying that a motor has a short life why burn away 3-6 tanks breakin now these are racers are racing motors different from what we use

A well run in motor and also well tuned can give you many gallons of good performance. A high end motor will do the same with more power. treat them wrong and they go fast. treat them right and I have heard of the axial .28 lasting 13 gallons+ (low dollar) dont break them in right they can fail in the first gallon.

Oregon mud if you see this chime in with the final # of nitro that 28 gave you (Thanks in advance Jeremy)..

My picco I ran in for a gallon... not tanks!

[ttuzun]

I took most of the car apart last night.
Today i am planning on taking apart the engine. Lets see if anything is wrong

I ran about close to 2 gallons with this car and nothing happened yet. However i can not really understand if the performance is good or not because this is my first savage and i never really got to compare it with other people.

[frddyj]

what mill we talkin about here bro? seems like youve been running it & after it sat for a year & all that, id run it & not worry about it. if it breaks then hook up with another mill & now you know more about how to break it in (or where to get help if your not sure) :peace:

[ttuzun]

Its a totally stock savage. It was 4.1 big block as far as i remember.
I havent run it after it sat for a long time. I put it to general maintenance and cleaning for now. Then i plan to run it. It would take a week or two probably before i get to try running it again.

I ll also try to figure out if something happened to the mill.

Thanks for the help.

[xll-SavageX-llx]

That's what i did with my k4.6 HO i forgot the rest of the break after 5th tank and i went out one day and ran the heck out of it, maybe temps were 234F and i cracked my ******** piston =( don't know how but i did !

I'm still running it now, runs fine, but later on ill buy new piston & sleeve !