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Old 10-11-2023, 01:43 AM   #18
Dameon Hubbard
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Default Re: 1937 model 74 blowing the blues

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Originally Posted by GB SISSON View Post
If it has been sitting, sometings the rings get stuck in the lands of the piston. You could try the Bill OH suggestion before you give up on the engine. I would go one step further than Bill and add a quart of marvel mystery oil to the new non detergent oil and a healthy slug of it into the gas in your tank. Then run it hard, but keep your eye on the oil pressure. What has it been showing so far on the oil pressure gauge?
Ive stuffed up and bent one of the exhaust valves slightly when doing the compression test. Will I be able to do the above with that? Or get that fixed first?
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