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Old 06-23-2007, 09:35 AM
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So you think the water treatment might work? you state 10 oz, how many minutes should it take to go through the 10 oz?
What does the "water treatment" do?
Should take about 1 minute to feed the water through.
It will loosen & blow out any carbon build-up.
Don't be alarmed when you see lots of steam coming out of the tailpipe while you're doing this.

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Old 06-23-2007, 10:46 AM
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Cools sounds like a neat trick,,, so what are the dangers to performing a water tune-up? If I put too much water in there can't the head gasket blow?
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No. Headgasket is safe.
Worst thing that could happen ( very slim chance ) is, you may blow a little piece of the sparkplug ceramic insulator off.
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Old 07-14-2007, 10:41 AM
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Got the car back from my daughter. mileage 248940, she drove the 190e almost 1000 miles in 3 weeks. All the GTP has been consumed, so I tested the compression and lo and behold, cylinder number one jumped up to 130 psi (after 3 revs - of the engine) it made it to 150 with 4 revs!
Looks like the GTP actually did something. I ran the test 4 times and very consistent. Actual readings:

#1 130
#2 150 (approx, wasn't as concerned with reading)
#3 150 (approx, wasn't as concerned with reading)
#4 150


Cylinder 4 also jumped up. Other items of interest on the way home from the fireworks display, I was told that the car started running hot. She said the needle approaced 120C, so they turned on the heater, and didn't boil over.


On a sad note, she hooked the bumper cover on a pickup's bumper and pulled it a little off,,, she was scared $#ITLESS, that I might be upset,,, I laughed,,, customized already,,,

So today I'm gonna recheck the Lambda and maybe go get another echeck. With the compression raised so much in cylinder number one, It's almost gotta pass,,,

When I pulled the plugs, one had this shiny black hard substance on it, on only one side of the tip. Here's a picture. All the others looked the same. This plug is from #3 cylinder. Can this be caused by a bad spray pattern? Or is this the result of carbon buildup released from the #1 cylinder that got sucked into #3 cylinder from the GTP. firing order is 1-3-4-2 right???
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