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Author Topic: Wilesco D3 modification build thread (near finished with video's)  (Read 3782 times)

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Best running D3 I've ever seen in no small part to your mods. From what I understand, you're lucky if you have one that even runs. Mine runs, but sloppy.
Do you have a video of it running in stock condition? Interesting to see how much improvement over it's original form.
Bret , that was an excellent Idea & wish I would have thought about that 1st, I shot a little air to it to see if it would run....it did , & off I went to disassembling it, it was only after I put it back together when I realized how poorly everything was machined. I do remember that it took 6psi to even run , I think because it was such a poor runner & it looked like it had only one firing judging by the very clean condition of the fuel tray & engine itself...the original owner was somewhat dissatisfied with it & moved it on.
I could also observe that its breaking in very nicely, the more I run it , the better it runs. I have approx 3 hrs run time on it now & its really running quite good now. I highly suspect that most of these don't get run often/long enough to get properly broken in 😔
Bruce, St. Paul Indiana, USA
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