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More thoughts on the review.

Unfortunately the good news turned sour.
First I noticed a poorly soldered connection and crooked exhaust. Easy enough to fix, simply replace the right side exhaust assembly.

Then I noticed the LEFT side intake manifold is incorrectly formed, so the intake blocks the oil filler plug from removal from the crankcase. That obviously is unacceptable, as there is no access to the crankcase.

All that would not have dampened my enthusiasm. I emailed the service person at enginediy.com, as directed on the invoice should one have problems. I even told them I was waiting on a response before posting my review.
I got no response in two full HK work days, headed into the weekend now. So I’ll go ahead and report.

I could not in good conscience recommend this series of engines.  Poor quality control and no reply from service has me feeling suckered. I’m done donating to them.  Anybody wanna buy an inline four?  They were less than helpful there also.

I would like to hear more about the inline 4 cyl & why you are unhappy with it.

I got zero help. I’ve had some health issues of late, but opened the boxer and found a couple of damaged pushrods, and a scored piston. I cleaned up the piston, replaced the o ring, and cleaned up the wonky pushrods. I’m gonna try reassembling the last bits today, see if I can make it go.
I get no help from these guys. If they were more responsive, I’d continue my off grid workshop village. I’ve got half a sawmill built. Maybe try powering it with a flathead whippet.

The inline four in question, also purchased as a first issue, is the yellow or gold color 32cc oh inline four.

I bought from the early issue, and before it even arrived, early videos showed horrid oil blow by with the rubber rings.  So when they came out with hard ring piston and sleeve sets, I bought them for over a hundred bucks, before I even got the engine. At some point Lucas, who now is now culprit on the boxer oil snafu, told me I didn’t need the upgrades because my engine already has them. I don’t know because I never got it running enough to find out.

Following common nonsense, I tried to start it with zippo, the first night, once I had the optional 109 Buck starter installed. Ut ran five second or less then quit. Two problems. It wouldn’t even fire on zippo, which of course I tried until I had the carb out of whack and a dead battery. Next day couldn’t even make it pop. Discovered online info that the seventy cc oil was too much. Drained and refilled with about forty cc
At some point I heard zippo doesn’t play well in Walbro clone carbs, so I replaced that also. I have been there and back, can’t get it sorted and my vision becomes a problem working alone. I’m just tired of the poor responses.

It's a shame , I seem to see this same response over & over again , maybe runs good at 1st ,then problems (sometimes Major) and 0 help after the purchase.

Well said , pretty much summed it up.