Bob Russell wrote:

>> The top end was recently overhauled on my Great Plains 2180 and I have it running pretty well. I have run it on the ground a bit to get it tuned properly. I want to do a few ground runs and also need to go over a few other things on the airplane before getting airborne but I am wondering about methods to do the seating of the rings without actually going flying at this point. I don't want to glaze the cylinders while I am running it in.<<

I don't worry much about breaking the rings in....that's not a problem with VW's. I just go fly the thing. After replacing cam and lifters you need to run it for something like a half hour at 2500 rpms a few times, but you didn't disturb those.

Mark Langford
m...@n56ml.com
http://www.n56ml.com


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