mjboehm
15+ Year Contributor
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- Oct 18, 2006
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Fort Myers,
Florida
My car has been burning oil for a while can't figure out where the oil is coming from.I just put a stroker motor in my car it only has 105 miles on it. The car didn't smoke before the turbo went bad.Then my turbo took a crap I tought. So I took off my turbo and replaced it. I cleaned the ic/icp/ turbo manfiold and etc. So my car is still smoking really bad. I did a compression test on it the compression is 160,155,160,145. So yesterday I pulled the plugs and looked at them and there was a little on the plugs and oil on top of the pistons. When the car is first started up it smoke and if you give it gas it smokes even worse. Does this sound like a valve guide seals/head problem. Any info would be great before I take off the head and replace it. Thanks
. I went to a local dealer and got some valve stems ordered. I had them all replaced in about three hours. I didnt take the head off though. To save you some time, leave the head on. Just remove your valve cover, pull your cams out(so you will have to redo timing. do one cylibder at a time. Pull the #1 plug out. Get dome nylon rope, the real soft kind. 25ft is what I had. Crank you motor by hand till the number one piston is on its upstroke. just before 31 hits top dead center stop it. Start feeding rope down through the sparkplug hole. Keep feeding it till it wont go anymore. then crank you motor to bring the #1 piston at tdc. the rope will fill the gap between the piston and the valves so now you can just compress your valve springs and remove the keepers and then replace the seals. Do one at a time that way you know which keepers go with which valves. To compress the springs, I had a buddy with me. I pressed on the top of the retainer with a plug cutter(find them at hardware stores) that was inserted into a screwdriver that had the 1/4 insert to slide different bits into. I used that to press donw in the spring while a buddy used a small pen magnet and pulled the keepers out. Off came the spreing replace the seal and install. Repeat for all 16 vlaves. HAVE SOME PATIENCE!!! It does take some time, but it saves you the headache of removing the head and stuff.
