Date: Mon, 9 Dec 1996 02:22:16 -0800 (PST)
From: Mike West <mwest@cdsnet.net>
Subject: Valve guides & Stem seals

  Just a little one - I hope .

 Reading about a test on a  car where they removed the stem seals
on the exhaust valve stems.. . . Intakes left alone.

 The engine went from burning a quart every 2100 miles to 450 miles.

 Read another on a diesel engine that had such sloppy valve guides 
the engine kept running just burning the engine oil that ran down the
stems.

 How many of us even have stem seals? I had to coerce my Flaps into
even ordering me a set.

 How many of us are having trouble passing a smog test?

 These are what is referred to as "rhetorical" questions.

 You need not reply.

 Bob Hoover strikes again, one of the Sermons mentioned it.
  Just said "put 'em on".

 west