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1. [FOT] Color Tune & MG Ideas (score: 1): Author: WEmery7451@aol.com; Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2006 11:52:12 EDT; Dear FOT, We were in Ireland for a couple of weeks to visit our middle daughter and first born grandchild. Son-in-law told me that he was going to have the engine torn out of his MG, and replaced. It; /html/fot/2006-08/msg00120.html (8,811 bytes)
2. RE: [FOT] Color Tune & MG Ideas (score: 1): Author: Bill Babcock <BillB@bnj.com>; Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2006 09:21:58 -0700; Sounds like the rings are toast. Colortunes are fine for setting idle mixtures--used them on motorcycles for years. They can't handle the temperature and pressure of a dyno run, or they'd be great fo; /html/fot/2006-08/msg00123.html (10,245 bytes)
3. Re: [FOT] Color Tune & MG Ideas (score: 1): Author: WEmery7451@aol.com; Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2006 23:01:07 EDT; << Sounds like the rings are toast. >> If the rings are toast, they must all be toasted by the same amount. Every time I determined this on other cars in the past, there was always some variation of; /html/fot/2006-08/msg00131.html (7,268 bytes)
4. RE: [FOT] Color Tune & MG Ideas (score: 1): Author: Bill Babcock <BillB@bnj.com>; Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2006 20:53:35 -0700; They probably ARE equally toasted. Most of us are used to racing engines, but high mileage car engine fail in a much more civilized manner. Compression stays okay, but the rings are stuck in their gr; /html/fot/2006-08/msg00132.html (8,206 bytes)
5. Re: [FOT] Color Tune & MG Ideas (score: 1): Author: "Robert M. Lang" <lang@isis.mit.edu>; Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 09:53:04 -0400 (EDT); Well, the bottom line is that you are getting enough oil vapor in the cylinders to effect the mixture. It's either rings or valve guides. Do a leak-down test and find out for sure. The motor does not; /html/fot/2006-08/msg00144.html (8,084 bytes)
6. Re: [FOT] Color Tune & MG Ideas (score: 1): Author: WEmery7451@aol.com; Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 09:53:25 EDT; << Compression stays okay, but the rings are stuck in their grooves with gook (technical term) or they've lost most of their spring tension and the oil rings aren't working either. You get lots of bl; /html/fot/2006-08/msg00146.html (7,629 bytes)

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