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Water Cooled & Glow Fuel conversion for RC Boat

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Welcome to the forum!

Engines should be fairly easy to find if you go with an air cooled engine. The water cooled engines are a bit tougher to find but they're out there too.

Just do a search on ebay for Ohlsson Rice

The Octura mount and out drive might be a bit tougher to find but also can be found with patience and persistence. 

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Good afternoon Walfish!!

Question about your O&R.

How do you like the way it run with the nitro?

What carb setting is best?

What percentage of nitro and oil you use?

Pull start and a glow plug initiates the start right?

Thanks.

Racer59

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:WMOM:Racer59

Unfortunately I have never run any of my glow plug engines because I don't have the fuel. The RC engines are just part of my collection.

I'm sure a local hobby shop which sells RC nitro fuel can help you with the correct fuel to use. The carb setting will need to be adjusted with the engine running to get the best performance for each condition it is running in. 

To initiate the start with a glow plug, you will need to attach a 6v battery to the glow plug. This will heat the little coil inside the plug to ignite the fuel and then the battery connection is removed. The combustion of the fuel will keep that little coil hot enough to keep the engine running without the battery.

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