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RE: Blue smoke and good compression

To: "Jim Muller" <jimmuller@pop.mail.rcn.net>
Subject: RE: Blue smoke and good compression
From: Dave Massey <105671.471@compuserve.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 09:22:22 -0500
Cc: "triumphs@autox. Net" <Triumphs@autox.team.net> 42dbca82.dsl.aros.net id gAKERSq2003027
Message text written by "Jim Muller"
>I may be wrong (as is often the case), but bad rings would produce 
>more smoke when you back off the throttle at speed.  This might 
>typically happen when you shift up, or when you downshift to 
>deccelerate. 

Interesting.  I always thought that bad rings resulted in smoke under load
(heavy throttle) where blowby was the worst.

>Anyway, the point is that running at high rpm's with 
>throttle open is different from with throttle closed.  (Note the 
>double-preposition construction.  

perhaps it would be better to say:
"...it is different running at high RPM's with the throttle closed than for
as to with the throttle closed."

Perhaps not.

>That's quite rare.  And probably 
>illegal in the Queen's English, let alone Tolkien's.  But I betcha' 
>George Dubya wouldn't mind!)

Indeed!  it is the Nuk-U-lus of his national policy, indubldibidbly.

Dave (not a technical writer - thank goodness)
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