How do you check the valve seals and guides without disassembling the head from the block again. I am getting so frustrated with having to pull the head all the time.
Now driving home from work with the PCV disconnected and routed to the catch can which made no difference I blew up Transmission #4. 3rd gear roll on the throttle and kablamo, no body home in the 1st 2nd or 3rd. limped home with it making horrible noises in 4th. Bob ----- Original Message ----- From: Ralph Alder To: 'Bob Bundy' ; [email protected] ; 'Ray Ayala' Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 10:24 AM Subject: RE: Tailpipe smoking under load. I go along with Ray's idea.check the valve seals. My nearly-spot-on maxim that when something goes wrong, first check that with which you last messed. If it didn't smoke before the valve job and now it does, perhaps all was not done properly. Our old Dodge Caravan developed a serious smoking problem (not a good thing in SoCal where you can't even smoke on the beach) which was discovered to be an exhaust valve guide extruding into the exhaust port leaving nothing for the seal to seat on. You should have seen the stuff on the exhaust valve.ugh. I'd posit that perhaps a seal has dislodged and is not sealing any more. Ralph Alder Team Orphan Aerodyne ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bob Bundy Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008 8:17 PM To: [email protected]; Ray Ayala Subject: Re: Tailpipe smoking under load. I know it sounds like that but the valves were taken out inspected and the valve stem seals replaced just two weeks ago. Initially I thought it was that before the head was redone as well. I would have thought the machine shop would have caught anything wrong. Bob ----- Original Message ----- From: Ray Ayala To: Bob Bundy ; [email protected] Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008 8:08 PM Subject: Re: Tailpipe smoking under load. Sounds like oil getting sucked down one or more intake stems under vacuum and then burning under subsequent load. Check to see if that 1 in 3 times happens to be follow a longer-than-normal vacuum condition. ----- Original Message ----- From: Bob Bundy To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008 7:42 PM Subject: Tailpipe smoking under load. I seem to have one cylinder burning oil. But I'm having a horrible time trying to diagnose 1) Smokes on hard accel under load with boost only. Not at all under vacuum. Does it maybe 1 in three times it smokes a pretty good cloud and not every time. 2) Definitely have oil consumption but not a huge amount. Less than ΒΌ quart per tank I think a little more on the track. 2) Spark plug in #1 will have some sticky Oil residue but not really wet. Gets kind of gummy occasionally All others look perfect. 3) Compression test shows all cylinders within a couple psi of each other. 4) Leak down less than 5% at 100psi in all cylinders. 5) Absolutely no blowby showing up in my catch can on the breather side 6) Changing PCV valve made no difference. 7) Valves and guides and valve seals are freshly redone due to burnt exhaust valve on #1 8) RC 750cc injectors replaced because thought might have caused lean condition burning #1 valve 9) The cylinder bores ant the tops of the Pistons all looked fine when I had the head off to have the valve fixed. 9) Doesn't seem to be down on power 338.2 hp 295 ft.lb at 17psi on the Dyno Dynamics dyno Yesterday afrs safely in the 11.8 to 11.4 range. Grayish smoke cloud out the tailpipe on the dyno but not really a total smoke out. Some of the Hondas were worse. Any Ideas? I never noticed the smoke before until just before I burned the exhaust valve. Now the smoke cloud is really unsightly and I'm worried I'm going to do more expensive damage running it further. Bob -------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Miatapower mailing list [email protected] http://list.miatapower.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/miatapower
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