<div dir="ltr"><div>No valve seals on a TR3 engine. Could be worn valve guides but in my experience those usually manifest themselves by allowing oil to seep into the cylinder when the engine is off and produce blue smoke briefly at start-up.</div><div><br></div><div>Once the head is off (and possibly the pistons examined) I expect the answer will be more apparent.</div><div><br></div><div>Geo </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 10:55 AM, Reihing, Randall S. <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Randall.Reihing@utoledo.edu" target="_blank">Randall.Reihing@utoledo.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid">
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<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10pt;direction:ltr">The following is just my opinion and is only presented to see if it can help, not to criticize anyone.
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<div>I know the amount of smoke that can be generated because of worn valve seals sounds a little difficult to believe...<br></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div>