Terry,
What about running non-detergent oil for a couple of oil changes?
Dana
Terry and Donna Cost wrote:
> I put Slick 50 in the gray ghost as it's first oil after being rebuilt. It
> has smoked from day one, and there's nothing I can do about it. It runs
> really well, but "clears it's throat" every time I accelerate from idle. I
> also put an electric fuel pump on it, and overwhelmed the floats on the
> Hitachis, so I got a combination of blue and black smoke out of the
> tailpipes. I went to a lower PSI electric pump and I keep oil in the sump
> to replace the oil pulled past the rings. I was thinking that if I replaced
> the oil with something of higher viscosity, like 200 weight gear oil, the
> gray ghost wouldn't smoke as much. Maybe chassis grease mixed in with
> deisel fuel would do the trick.
>
> Andy and I are going with the TDROC group to Colorado at the end of July.
> We'll trailer the gray ghost to Denver so we can have tools and tires for
> the autocross there on the 28th, then meet the TDROC on the 29th for a drive
> up Mt. Evans with those WyCROC members who can join us. We hope to camp out
> rather than stay in motels, but we'll prepare for whatever comes our way.
> We have to be home a day or two early, so we'll head back to Denver for the
> trailer and Suburban on the 2nd or 3rd of August. I heard there's a
> fantastic mexican food place in Denver with a cliff diver and a dancing
> gorilla. The food is supposed to be good, also. Let me know if you've been
> there.
>
> Leisure Suit Terry
>
>
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