saito fa 56 rebuild

mitchg95 Sun Feb 17, 2013 1:00 pm

I have a saito fa 56 which needs rebuilt before i put it in a 72'' rc Quaker that i am buying from my uncle, here is what is wrong
The glow plug threads are stripped out, so thanks Jason for suggesting Clarence Lee to me i will send him the old cylinder assembly for the glow plug thread
Of course this means removing the piston which is ringed, so i will need a new ring from Frank Bowman because once you take the ring out, the old one will never seat the same way in the cylinder again
My question is, will i have to mess with the timing again, i am not going to be touching the timing gears but will be taking the cylinder off with the rockers.
thanks, Mitch

Jason_WI Sun Feb 17, 2013 1:06 pm

Shouldn't need to worry about the timing unless you remove the cam gear box cover and cam gear which is not needed to do unless you change out the bearings.