'Smoking' Valver

[hendrix]

Well after having the new valver engine a week and seemingly being completely mint last week its decided to become a proper smoker as it likes nothing more than to puff out masses of blue smoke when revd up also sounds fairly rough compared to when I first got it. I removed the spark plugs and 3 were the normal colour and one was black and sooty. I tend to think that because its been stood a while that one of the piston rings has gone.
Any ideas folks?
Cheers

[Mike]

rings gone bye bye and now burning oil! hence blue smoke like the red arrows but more blue'r! lol

[hendrix]

see thats what i thought too.
eghhh bloody rings, right ball ache. might just pay some1 to do it lol

[Mike]

agreed, thats what i did last time as it was 4 days before x-mas and i couldnt be @rsed with the cold lol

[hendrix]

how much u pay?

[Mike]

mine is an 8v SR remember. it was the 22nd december or something like that, cash in hand at my local garage!

new head gasket, p/rings and a reground crank and 11 tho piston skim came to ?286+ or something like that. Includes like the usual head skim and sundries (oil + water) etc etc

Not bad for about 6 hours work that close to christmas!

[Adam]

Do a compression test.