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Re: Valve Adjustment and Blue Smoke #4330 01/05/2004 7:10 PM
Joined: Jun 2000 Posts: 2,773 Wichita, KS F Fred T 'Bolter
Fred T 'Bolter F Joined: Jun 2000 Posts: 2,773 Wichita, KS	Try reseating the rings and see if it helps. High gear, up and down hard on the throttle a few times from about 20 to 40 mph. Usually, if a ring isn't seated, the hard vacuum/compression changes will work it in. Fred 52 3600 69 C-10

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Subject	Posted By	Posted
Valve Adjustment and Blue Smoke	Apache61	01/05/2004 4:27 PM
Re: Valve Adjustment and Blue Smoke	truckernix	01/05/2004 5:58 PM
Re: Valve Adjustment and Blue Smoke	Fred T	01/05/2004 7:10 PM
Re: Valve Adjustment and Blue Smoke	50-four-Bruce	01/05/2004 11:01 PM
Re: Valve Adjustment and Blue Smoke	Fred T	01/05/2004 11:06 PM
Re: Valve Adjustment and Blue Smoke	truckernix	01/06/2004 2:28 AM
Re: Valve Adjustment and Blue Smoke	Apache61	01/06/2004 2:41 PM
Re: Valve Adjustment and Blue Smoke	Fred T	01/06/2004 6:33 PM

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