Reply To: UU2 CARB FOUND

[Gregory Long]

Hi Richard, it is best to refrain from too much idling of a fresh engine. A fresh rebuilt engine needs to be run on the road, with some ‘load’ on the engine, in order to create the combustion chamber pressure needed to push the rings against the cylinders to get the rings to seat.

Many times, a car undergoing restoration is started and let idle for a few minutes every few months, but since the car is not yet road-worthy, the engine is not ‘working’. The rings never seat-in, and the cylinders get a ‘glaze’ on them, and the rings as well, and they will not seat-in once they are glazed.

So, wait for the car to be road-worthy, and then find a hill to climb several times, the power needed to pull a hill requires a fair amount or even all the engines power, and creating this power is what makes the pressures that get the rings to seat..

We all are looking forward to seeing your car back together again and you driving it !!

Greg Long