[FC] smoking engine

[Merv Krull]

New engine? or how many miles on it?
Any chance the rings have not set?
Any chance the oilpan got dinged in somehow reducing how much oil the pan 
will hold?
my two cents
Merv Krull
Salmon Arm, BC
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <BobHelt at aol.com>
To: <dfamily at cecomet.net>; <virtualvairs at corvair.org>; 
<corvanatics at corvair.org>
Sent: Friday, July 07, 2006 10:30 AM
Subject: Re: [FC] smoking engine


>
> In a message dated 7/7/2006 10:04:57 AM US Mountain Standard Time,
> dfamily at cecomet.net writes:
>
>
> But  where do I go from here?  I guess it is either live with the problem,
> quite severe yesterday, or new cylinders, piston, and rings.  Thanks for 
> the
> information. Dennis Dorogi
>
>
>
> Dennis,
> I think that you will just have to live with it.
>
> I forgot to mention, that this problem can also result from the rings
> aligning their gaps. (You do know that the rings do rotate around the 
> piston?).
> But this usually occurs on one piston at a time and results is a very 
> minimum
> amount of oil burning. Also oil burning will continue while running until 
> the
> rings loose the alignment. I don't know the speed of ring rotation but it 
> must
> be very slow otherwise wear would be accelerated.
> Regards,
> Bob Helt
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