motor rebuild

[derrickmd18 at juno.com (der flo)]

It was deffently oil buring.  I took the air filter out and it has oil on
it.  My car is running at 100 on highway and 120 in traffic.  its running
a little hotter then normal.  i haven't notice a drop in performance. 
but I know when I sit at a light it starts to smoke out the tailpipe. 
but when I tap the gas a little it goes away.  I think its valve seals
but I don't know.  I did a compression test about two months ago and it
was 150 in all 4 cylinders.

On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 04:09:51 -0700 (PDT) Robbie Cotner <robw_z@yahoo.com>
writes:
> When my 8v smoked I rebuilt my spare 8v, and fought to keep the 
> smoking 8v in the car running until I was finished(took me 6 months, 
> but I took A LOT of breaks and it was my first rebuild).  I wouldn't 
> go through a rebuild unless you needed it, and theres a really easy 
> way to tell:  buy or borrow a compression tester!  You can get a 
> good one at Sears for $25.  Low or uneven compression will show if 
> you need a rebuild.  If you squirt a little oil in each cylinder and 
> the test still shows low/uneven compression that means the problem 
> is the headgasket/head, if compression raises it's bad rings.  What 
> color was this smoke?  In general white means you're burning 
> coolant(usually bad headgasket), black/grey/blue means your burning 
> oil(usually bad rings or valvestem seals).  Is the car running 
> hotter than normal?  Have you noticed a drop or lack in power?  In 
> my experience, if you have bad rings the car will smoke all the 
> time, not just intermittently.
>  
> -Rob
> 
> der flo <derrickmd18@juno.com> wrote:
> I was out racing my car last night and all of a sudden it started
> shooting smoke out the tail pipe. when I saw this I let off and 
> pulled
> over and cut the car off. checked everything and it didn't look like 
> the
> headgasket was blown or anything so i let it sit for 10 mins then 
> started
> it up. lightly smoked a few seconds then it was ok. I drove the car 
> home
> and it didn't smoke once. I'm thinking my rings are shot. I have a 
> spare
> motor in my garage and I have a headgasket kit. I'm thinking if I 
> should
> rebuild the motor that in my car or rebuild my spare motor and drop 
> it
> in. What do u guys think?
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