Hello All,
I am posting this for Bob Maniaci. He's tried to post it twice but I
never saw it show up on the list.....
Hey Guys
I'll run the scenario by you guys and maybe someone can help. I bought
my wife a '59
948cc bugeye for her b'day, car came from Fla. via Texas. The bugeye
was blowing alot
of smoke and oil coming out of the exhaust. I got a new 12G295 head and had new
valves(3 angle grind)springs, bronze guides, and seals installed, Greg
Groiss and myself
removed the old head installed the new one( and found out that the
bugeye has .020 flat
top pistons)after installation 3 we did another compression test and
came out w/ the
following #'s cyl.#1 160, #2 155, #3 150, #4 150 reinstalld the plugs
and fired her up.
Immediately a plume of smoke shot out of the exhaust and got
progressively worse. Is it
possible the smoke is from residual oil in the exhaust. or is it
possible w/even those
compression #'s I have ring problem or something else I'm missing? If
it's the oil in the
exhaust pipe/muffler is there a way to to clear it without running the
car and having it
look like J. Bond switching on the smoke? (LIke seafoam) Any hlp or insight is
appreciated
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