Recent content by TomYoung

Solvents and potions might fixed a gummed up carb. More certain is disassembly and manual cleaning, and even more certain is carburetor replacement, which costs almost nothing given the proliferation of Chinese replacements.

I agree with your assessment. A quart in 600 miles, is in my view a car that should not be on the road. Every 3,000 miles is a prosaic occurrence, but still out of the norm for a k24. Best wishes and please keep this thread updated as you learn more.

I would suggest focusing on keeping the oil topped up as you have an oil burning situation. I like the LM engine flush and a few folks in the thread have had good experience with the BG piston soak product. So you could try that (you might need to have a mechanic secure the BG product???)...

Kinda concerned that this thread is a high level CIA interrogation designed to get folks to admit to using regular sockets with an impact wrench. I will admit to having done that a few times. Let’s see what happens to me next.

Three to five years.

God forbid you dilute your oil with oil.

I like it personally, but the process is probably duplicative and at the same time oddly specific. I would prefer using the LM flush, driving 2500 miles and repeating with the cheap oil rinse both times, and new filters x4. I suspect you have a worn engine.

I like to follow rules, but gotta agree here, and think the benefits outweigh whatever NGK has in mind.

People there are dying to sell their cars.

Not much to see, but is anyone asking for my comments on a 14k OCI?

If this car is manual, it should be fixed,

Strictly speaking, this is true, but if you are looking for likely occurrences, generally speaking, if you put a working small engine away a month ago, it still has spark today.

Sure, but it’s almost never the spark plug.

Could be wrong here, but the OP said the engine gave a couple of putts. That’s a little bit opaque, but I would take it to mean that it fired off once or twice, which probably means spark, timing or compression are okay. Beyond that, the rule with small engines is that it is always the carb...

There are no meaningful ill effects of using starting fluid. If you get some noise, you know you probably have a carb issue. Not sure what equipment you have, but most carbs can be easily rebuilt with kits that usually cost less than $10