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Curtis Wright
Member ID: curtis7420
Member Status: Silver Member  Univerisity City, MO, USA 
Last Login: 2013-05-20 19:12:06
Forum Activity: 2013-05-20 23:30:43 Forum Posts: 1,901 |
3 Vehicles -- Total mileage: 269,540 mi (433,783 km) -- Average age: 1993
There are 18 total entries in this Journal.
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Posted on: Wednesday September 14, 2011
Well after much searching and debating, i have found the culprit of my smoke issue. compression test showed an issue with cylinder #3. i tried adding an oil additive. two days later, i did a sea foam treatment. a day later i did another compression test. the numbers got a little better, still an issue with #3. but more importantly, the smoke stopped. so, i did a version of a leak down test where i hooked up the air compressor to the cylinder, while at TDC. air was coming through the exh...
Posted on: Monday August 22, 2011
this past week the engine has gone on a huge decline. not sure what's wrong but the car is burning A LOT of oil. it's almost embarrassing to drive it on the highway because of the amount of smoke it's putting out. kind of like a james bond 007 smoke screen. originally thought it was a clog somewhere in the emission controls. but, so far no luck in finding it - though i have barely even gotten started. someone else thought it was something else, dealing with just above the head. this perso...
Posted on: Sunday August 14, 2011
Tonight i got the sun visors installed. i had to remove the old rivets by drilling them out with a 1/8" bit. i was a little nervous after reading someone's post saying that it was possible to crack the windshield. but, didn't happen, and i don't know how it could. i put a screw in the hole and couldn't feel anything behind or around it except some cushioning. it was too hard to get the rivet into the hole where it holds the pin on the visor so i used a screw on one side of the rubber bracke...
Posted on: Sunday August 14, 2011
i was looking through past entries and realized i hadn't posted some pics of work done - ie. completed shocks and springs. here they are i also hadn't know that anyone had been reading my post and even commented...dealing with the shocks, it was suggested to paint then fill - because of oil getting on metal. i did the opposite. but i did do a pretty good cleaning after filling. so, paint still took to metal.
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