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- Path: sparky!uunet!orca!navajo!sbender
- From: sbender@navajo.dsd.es.com (Steve Bender)
- Subject: Re: IROC smokes on start
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.230321.29477@dsd.es.com>
- Sender: sbender@navajo (Steve Bender)
- Nntp-Posting-Host: 130.187.91.22
- Organization: Evans & Sutherland
- References: <15200039@hpspdla.spd.HP.COM> <1992Aug25.131721.15149@dg-rtp.dg.com> <1992Aug25.210108.24712@ncrcae.ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM> <1992Aug27.164356.19492@icf.hrb.com>
- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 92 23:03:21 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug27.164356.19492@icf.hrb.com>, amk@icf.hrb.com (Andrew M. Kissel) writes:
- |> In article <1992Aug25.210108.24712@ncrcae.ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM>, kent@lightnin.Columbia.NCR.COM (Kent Richardson) writes:
- |> > Just wondering if any other Camaro owners have the same problem I do with the
- |> > car smoking a lot at startup. The amount it smokes seems to increase relative
- |> > to how long the car has sat without running(i.e. next day-smokes a little,
- |> > after a week-smokes a LOT). I was wondering what this is and if anything can
- |> > be done to stop it. I think it may be dirty injectors?? The engine is a
- |> > 305 cubic in. (5.0L) with Tuned Port Injection. If it is'nt the injectors I
- |> > don't feel like getting a $50 injection purge.
- |> >
- |>
- |> Same problem here!!!! In fact, my neighbors IROC does the same thing as well!
- |> Your not alone here. When I get more info, I'll post to this news group. Its
- |> definately oil burning, but it not too bad. Yet!
- |> --
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- Oil is making its way past the valve guides and into the combustion chambers (or
- exhaust ports)... This is typical of an engine that has worn valve guides and/or
- needs the soft rubber valve-guide seals to be replaced. The seals can often be
- replaced (with care) without removing the heads... fixing the valves/guides
- themselves involves removing the heads but is not an entirely daunting task.
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- --
- Steve Bender
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