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Old 01-06-2002, 05:40 PM
psfred psfred is offline
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I think you have cured the problem. Tight valves cold usually means they stay open hot, and the resulting low compression causes all sorts of trouble.

It will take a couple hours running to get all the crud out of the cylinders from the low compression soot accumulation. Ditto for getting the valves re-seated properly.

You also have some carbon on the injectors from poor combustion -- this will clear up when you get some time on the engine with good compression.

You can speed all this up by running a full bottle of RedLine in a tank of fuel.

Peter
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