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Kita-Ku, Sapporo, Japan
Registered:
January 2003
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Re: Early symptoms of broken piston rings????
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Fri, 21 March 2003 04:53
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a teardown? thats a bit dramatic isnt it?
usually its just a bit of blueish/black smoke out the exhaust and a loss in compression, if you have a feel for your car you can actually feel it in 'spirited' downshifts...
also as someone already mentioned oil in the combustion chamber sparkplugs valves etc.
 umm, i guess so, but it's not real hard with a K motor 
i'll be putting injection in a few months and was going to do a teardown with maybe a new block for the heck of it. go another 20 thou on the bores and another 5 points or so of compression..
i just don't want to motor to blow up and kill the head before then.. i'd hate to have to do all the porting again...
what can you feel on the down shifts?? the odd sound i can hear sounds remarkably like tapping an aluminium piston with a small hammer, kinda hollow and dull, not the higher pitched or sharper metallic sound of pinging...
Cya, Stewart
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