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Old Mar 12, 2010 | 01:18 AM
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im not sure yet it useing lots of oil smokes bad and no power we were pushing the truck hard and it started losing power and smoking we did a compression test on it and drivers side rear cycl had no 0 compression so were thinking that piston is bad i just was looking for some power upgrades
 
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Old Mar 12, 2010 | 06:23 AM
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Oh, I was under the impresson you had already completed your exploratory surgery. If it does indeed turn out that a piston is holed, don't up the compression on the rebuild. If it's something else, then you can probably get by jumping the compression a little.
 
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