- 1. Spitfire Engine Self Healing Mystery (score: 1)
- Author: sinclair@degenkolb.com
- Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 11:09:39 -0700
- I have a 65 Spitfire with (I believe) the 1127cc engine. When I brought it it would smoke heavily from the rocker breather pipe under sustained load once warmed up - taking off from lights, up hills
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- 2. Re: Spitfire Engine Self Healing Mystery (score: 1)
- Author: ZinkZ10C@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 16:08:14 EDT
- << I'm also wondering if there is something else I can do to finish off the cleaning process - a few changes of straight 40wt oil? Some sort of additive? I recall some discussion of drizzling a littl
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- 3. RE: Spitfire Engine Self Healing Mystery (score: 1)
- Author: "Randall" <tr3driver@comcast.net>
- Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 14:45:12 -0700
- All sounds perfectly reasonable to me. Ain't broke, DON'T FIX IT !!! You've just described a sweet running little engine, why take a chance on f-ing it up ? Use a quality detergent oil & filter, may
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- 4. Re: Spitfire Engine Self Healing Mystery (score: 1)
- Author: "Nolan Penney" <npenney@mde.state.md.us>
- Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2005 05:36:09 -0400
- As I started reading your post, stuck rings freeing up was my immediate thought. I think you're right in that supposition. -- The information contained in this communication may be confidential, is i
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