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Re: TR4 Burning Oil

To: gprtech@frontiernet.net, triumphs@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: TR4 Burning Oil
From: ZoboHerald@aol.com
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 18:18:45 EDT
....or broke a ring?

--Andy Mace

In a message dated 10/13/2003 2:55:51 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
gprtech@frontiernet.net writes:

> Either that or you've holed a piston.
> 
> mike hart wrote:
> 
> >Hi All,  I need help diagnosing an oil burning problem. A couple a Weeks 
> ago while feeling frisky, I reved the 4 a little to far, and now have massive 
> smoke. I did a compression test with results as follows. Dry 1 - 130#, 2 - 
> 130#, 3 - 50#, 4 - 125#; Wet 1 - 130#, 2 - 130#, 3 - 55#, 4 - 130#. Readings 
> would seem to indicate valves in number 3. Then discovered smoke is exiting 
>via 
> breathing tube, not exhaust. Would this be blow-by, indicating rings.




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