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Old 04-11-2019, 08:37 AM
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Yea don’t stress. I have been soft preparing for this for a year now. I get the smoke after long idle. Like a car wash.

I say use the bungie chord in the spark plug hole instead of air pressure. Take your time, and make something so that you can lay over the engine. I plan on making something out of wood that will span fender to fender. Other than that, I have no first hand experience, yet. Lol.


That’s too funny, to avoid that I kept blipping the throttle as I rolled through the car wash yesterday... I felt bad for the poor guy behind me if I let it load up and then mosquito fogged him as I dropped it in gear to pull out of the dryers...

I read about using a bungle cord as well, seems significantly “safer” than using air as long as you use the rubberized ones that won’t leave “fuzzies” in the plug threads as you pull it out.

And I really like the idea of building myself a small shelf type unit to lay across the fenders! Good call, I’ll snap a pic of anything I might throw together and let you know how it works out.

I’m sourcing and ordering parts now so it will probably be a week or two before the actual tear down and dig in, will keep you posted
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