I received the first engine after 10 days from purchase and it came as a finished working piece. Parts are nicely machined. The story is kinda long and interesting so here I will start from the second purchase which is for a friend. This second engine runs upon we give it some lube and fuel, just need slight adjustment of the governor and injection pump stroke/timing. It never failed one start for 2 weeks up to now. The first engine came with an interesting story. Upon got it I tried starting it but it won't keep firing, so I tried a little bit of starting fluid and got the rod bended. Later found out the reason for that was actually the flywheel got a bit loose so I used JBWeld to fix it in place and it worked till today, no more problems about the flywheel. They sent me the spare rods and after I got them I replaced the bended rod and tried starting without any starting fluid, fuel was just straight diesel. However the second rod got bended again and upto today I'm still not sure why, but what I could hear was an abnormal blast knocking before bent. After a few more bended rod finally I tried to reverse mounting the piston ring (now kinda of functioning like an safety valve) and it runs safely. But this reverse mounted ring won't last long because of the deformation caused by high temp blow-by gas. Instead I machined a small volume in the piston top to decrease the compression ratio to 18 and now it starts and runs safely with a normal mounted ring. Interestingly even I'm using a trued rod(actually being bent 3-4 times and trues 3-4 times) and sometimes the engine undergoing knocking, the rod never failed again. Anyway I believe they are constantly refining this engine and that might be the reason our second engine never has any fault! Love this diesel so much!
