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Rings for my b30 140-160 1975

posted by  Zee on  Thu Jan 5 18:17 CST 2006
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The symptoms -- flooding, belching black oil smoke back throough the intake, failure to restart when hot, sound more like a problem with the fuel injection system.

Have you done enough study of fuel delivery and injection -- and read the FAQ about things like faulty engine temp sensors, etc -- to see if FI is more the problem?

Here is John Parker's tech article on the Leak Down Test:

http://www.vclassics.com/archive/leakdown.htm






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