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Originally Posted by J-Mech
Ryan
When a head gasket blows, it should leak compression "air". If left blown for too long, that cylinder not able to pull its own "weight", that cylinder will start to let oil blow by its rings. I don't see any scoring on your cylinder that would indicate a broken ring, but it shouldn't have been pushing that much oil past them. Chances are good, that even after you put it together, its gonna burn oil. I have seen engines that were able to re-seat their rings...... but not always. Roll the motor and make sure the valves are working properly. As far as how it ran before, it may have started good, but it had to have a missfire.
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Thanks Johnathon! BTW, I hope I didn't come across as smart-a$$ or anything in my other post and if I did, I apologize; understandably, I was frustrated. Anywho, I got things cleaned up as best I could and got things reassembled about an hour ago. I had to run into work for a couple hours, couldn't pull the whole day off, but when I get home, I'm going to fire it up and see what happens. I'm usually a very optimistic fellow, so I'm hoping for the best
Oh, one thing I noticed; the new gasket I got from O'Reilly's seems a lot lighter than the one that was on the motor...different material or something?
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Originally Posted by cuber
Clean it up good and put it back together. I would put a lot like almost full bottle of marvel mystery oil in the crankcase and let this thing run and see what happens. Adding the mystery oil will highly increase the chance of the rings to reseal. Been there done that sometimes it works sometimes it don't. On all my small engines after every oil change I add some mystery oil.
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Thank you, I'll give that a shot. I actually just picked up a new bottle of MMO when I picked up my new gasket so it must be a sign
I always run a couple ounces per gallon in my gas for my small engines but don't usually put it in the oil. I'll give it a shot.