Oil is cheap.
Geoff Branch
'74 Meejit "Yellow Peril"
'72 Innocenti 1300 Mini
----- Original Message -----
From "John Holliday" <fprodget at yahoo.com>
To: <Tommy_Samuels@markivauto.com>; <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 4:15 PM
Subject: Re: Sprite, smoking a little
> Here's my experience - if it smokes under hard
> acceleration (typically indicates worn rings/bores),
> or on the over-run (valve guides).
>
> You seem to have some of both. But you have got
> respectable compression as well.
>
> John Holliday
>
> --- Tommy_Samuels@markivauto.com wrote:
> > I've been driving the Sprite as much as possible
> > since getting it back on the
> > road
> > I've gotten the timing, points, valve carb and carbs
> > adjusted correctly -
> > FINALLY
> > It smoke a little - bluish - oil smoke
> > Ran it yesterday and pulled the plugs when I got
> > home and did a compression
> > check
> > #1, light brown plug tip, 135 - 140 psi
> > #2, slightly sooty plug tip, 145 - 150 psi
> > #3 light brown plug tip, 145 - 150 psi
> > #4 light brown plug tip, 140 - 140 psi
> >
> > noticed 2 things
> > Smokes when I get on it hard Smokes worse after I
> > coast a couple of hundred
> > yards
> >
> > Is this a valve guide problem?
> > Tommy
> > 70B
> > 67 Sprite
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