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Car smoking like a forest fire
My girlfriend thought the oil was low in the car because she didn't know how to read it so she had someone put an extra 4 quarts of oil in my engine. To compound the problem my clutch has been slipping really bad.
We were driving the car last night I had the clutch slip of the line and we hit 6000rmp the engine and exhaust smoked like a forest fire. I opened the engine compartment and there was oil sprayed out of the filler neck. I asked her about the oil and she told me what she had done. I went home and drained the four quarts and then had a compression test done it came out 1-170 2-175 3-100 4- 170 5-125 6-170. Does anyone have an opinion on what happened to cylinder 3&5? How could they have dropped so much? The last compression test I did had all cylinders reading pretty much the same. Any help would be greatly appreciated. John 1977 911s 1981 3.0sc ROW engine Last edited by Alaska911; 09-13-2004 at 09:14 AM.. |
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09-10-2004, 03:22 PM
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On September 2nd you wrote:
"I have two cylinders that have quite a bit less compression than the other four. What kind of a rebuild will this take to bring the compression up on the engine. I don't mind doing a complete rebuild but I would like to get away with less." Is this a different engine? -Andy
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Yes it is. What luck I have.
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09-10-2004, 03:45 PM
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I have an extra engine sitting in my garage. Now they both have two bad cylinders. I guess when I do my rebuild I will have a practice engine in case I screw up.
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09-10-2004, 03:53 PM
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It's not your girlfriend's fault! tell us when you did the last compression test and what has happened between then and now (mileage, etc).
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09-10-2004, 05:33 PM
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The last compression test was September of last year. Keep in mind this car is only driven June-September. All cylinders read 170-175. I also have a compression test from July of 2002 that had 175,185,180,185,175,185. The car has pretty much run fine except for the clutch problems recently. I hope this helps.
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