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Old May 17, 2010 | 01:17 AM
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I blew a ring just under normal driving. So I limped it home. I was wondering what do to now. If the walls just needed honed or the block is junk? I know I wouldn't be able to tell without pictures. But what do I do???
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Old May 17, 2010 | 02:38 AM
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How do you know it's a ring...?
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Old May 17, 2010 | 02:50 AM
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I was losing power and I pulled over and saw blue smoke coming out of the tailpipe. Then I took the exhaust off when I got home and looked up the mid-lenth header and oil all the way down the pipe coming off the 8th cylinder. I thought that was a blown, right?
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Old May 17, 2010 | 03:04 AM
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do a compression/leak down test. and you wont know why til you tear it apart, if it even needs to be torn down.
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Old May 19, 2010 | 11:06 PM
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its to late to do a compression test it's to far torn down so now what?
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Old May 20, 2010 | 06:01 AM
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Visually inspect the parts for damage, hopefully you'll find the cause.
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