it turns! yay!

I got a neat little funnel that was really a like a bendy straw with lots of bendys. Well, it seemed perfect, I can stick another funnel in the top of it, and I used it to pour MMO into the cylinders tonight. Didn’t really work that well though. I think there wasn’t enough force for it to really make the uphill slant, plus if you stuck the end tight into the spark plug whole, I think the liquid had a hard time displacing the air, as the air had no place to go. Anyways, I overfilled the cylinders, that is, probably 2-4 tablespoons each. Then I sat for fifteen minutes. Then I sprayed WD40 again. I waited another 15 minutes and turned the engine over by hand and it moved as easy I would expect it to normally, basically requiring a 1/2″ breaker bar, but I didn’t have to use a pipe on the breaker bar or anything. At first I heard a bunch of water come out, then what I assumed was last nights liberal application of WD40. After a minute no liquids could be heard anymore.

Then I reapplied MMO and WD40, waiting a bit and tried turning it over. At first the started seemed to stall like it was stuck and over-drawing (lights dimming more than they should). About the third try it turned just a little. I flicked the ignition a few times and it got a couple good gos, which all sounded normal. After than every turn of the engine went fine, with the engine turning over fairly normally. Or as normally as I could expect, as I’m not that used to listening to an engine turn over without plugs.

I’ll wait until tomorrow night or whenever so the WD40 can evaporate and whatever MMO that got into the cylinders can settle. I’ll turn it over a little more, then put the plugs back in and see if it’ll fire up. Assuming it does, I’ll run it for a few, drive it to the autoparts store and get new plugs and another change of oil, come home and change those. Glad to hear it turn today.