Re: [ihc] Re: 345 Oil drain holes clogged?

["Ryan Moore" <baradium@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steven Stegmann" <steve.stegmann@domain.elided>
To: "Tom Mandera" <tsm1@domain.elided>; "Jim Grammer" <jgrammer@domain.elided>
Cc: "Ted Borck" <tborck@domain.elided>; "IHdigest digest" <ihc@domain.elided>
Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2004 22:43
Subject: Re: [ihc] Re: 345 Oil drain holes clogged?

>
> Your problem might be rings.  Famous test for rings is
> to find a nice long hill on the highway and coast down
> with your foot off the gas at 60-70 mph for a long as
> you can, then stomp the gas.  If you get a huge cloud
> this way it is the rings.  Careful, I've had some
> engines that would almost bury the car behind when I
> did this.
>
> Steve

We used to havea  '65 chevy pickup, drove great, mechanically in tip top
shape... except the rings were shot.  I had those little extensions for the
spark plugs to stop oil fouling (found this out when I removed one and there
was something on the end of the spark plug that was going into the motor),
even with those extensions they oil fouled quick.   If you just used any
type of compression braking it'd start billowing smoke on its own.
Otherwise smoke was random.  Sometimes it wouldn't smoke at all, others it
would make be a fog machine (I mean *bad* as in you couldn't see past it).
That little 283 was fun to drive though.  Engine was so quiet with original
exhaust that the only thing you could hear was the fan (the only noise from
the exhaust was air moving).  I usually tapped the gas before pulling away
from a stop to make sure the engine was still running!

Anyway, if they are bad enough, he won't have to romp on it to get smoke!

-Ryan


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