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- From: v087mxgb@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Shawn E Thompson)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.tech
- Subject: Re: IROC smokes on start
- Message-ID: <Bto7JG.2FC@acsu.buffalo.edu>
- Date: 28 Aug 92 01:45:00 GMT
- References: <15200039@hpspdla.spd.HP.COM> <1992Aug25.131721.15149@dg-rtp.dg.com> <1992Aug25.210108.24712@ncrcae.ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM> <1992Aug27.230321.29477@dsd.es.com>
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- In article <1992Aug27.230321.29477@dsd.es.com>, sbender@navajo.dsd.es.com (Steve Bender) writes...
- >
- >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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- good geuss but thats not it.....I thought that too, cuz I had
- that problem. My friend has an IROC with the same symptoms,
- I suggested valve guides.
-
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- Actually it was a plugged oil-feed return line, poor design
- and common in all these models...
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