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Re: Carbon Buildup Preventative Maintenance

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Subject: Re: Carbon Buildup Preventative Maintenance
From: Randall Young <randallyoung@earthlink.net>
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 00:25:19 -0700
Unless your combustion chambers are a lot bigger than mine, a cupful of
water is enough to do some damage, if it goes in all in one slug. (9:1
CR in a 3.0 6-banger = 62.5 cc, which is about 1/4 cup.)

Dave Williams wrote:
> 
> -> Be VERY careful to dribble SLOWLY if you try the procedure listed
> -> below.  If you get too much water in any one cylinder you get a
> -> hydraulic lock.
> 
>  In practice you'd be hard pressed to feed in enough water to hydraulic
> a motor.  You'd need a bucket or a hose with a pretty good stream to do
> it.
>

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