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| | | | Joined: Apr 2011 Posts: 1 New Guy | | New Guy Joined: Apr 2011 Posts: 1 | Rebuilt my '57 235 7 years ago and it ran great. Misfortune caused it to sit, garaged for 7 years. Back on the road and it runs OK, but smokes, looks like from all cylinders. Will just running it resolve the smoking? | | | | | Joined: Nov 2005 Posts: 6,101 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Nov 2005 Posts: 6,101 | Hy Tierod, welcome, was the engine hard to crank when you went to restart it? Did you seal the carb, and exhaust when you put in storage? How many miles did it have on it when you put it in storage? If the cylinder bores were excessively rusty when you restarted you may have damaged the rings. | | | | | Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,885 Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) | | Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,885 | www.kanolabs.comPull the spark plugs and pour a couple of ounces of Kroil into each cylinder, then let it sit for a few days. If the rings have rusted into the piston grooves, the penetrant should free them up. Then give it a hard run of a couple of hundred miles at highway speed, or as close to keeping up with traffic as the gear ratio will let you do. The smoke should clear up unless you've got extremely deep pits in the cylinders. Jerry
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| | | | | Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,270 Bubba - Curmudgeon | | Bubba - Curmudgeon Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,270 | Tierod,
Follow Hotrod Lincoln's suggestions.
Run it for 1000 miles and report back. This might resolve the smoking and you really have nothing to lose (unless it starts getting noisy - if that happens stop driving it and report back).
My truck sat in a dirt floor unheated garage in NY for 16 years. It still drives quite nicely (since 1997) - you may be so lucky.
| | | | | Joined: Nov 2010 Posts: 304 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Nov 2010 Posts: 304 | Where can u find Kroils? Advance auto, auto zone, o'reileys, Napa, can't find it.
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| | | | | Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,885 Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) | | Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,885 | Order it direct from the manufacturer: www.kanolabs.comJerry
"It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and eliminate all doubt!" - Abraham Lincoln
Cringe and wail in fear, Eloi- - - - -we Morlocks are on the hunt!
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. - Ernest Hemingway
Love your enemies and drive 'em nuts!
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