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Old Apr 5, 2009 | 10:17 PM
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Had some valve spring noise, I attatched a pic of the cyl during the leakdown test.

(not as cool as some other people's broken stuff)

I'm not too bright, but it did not take long to find out what the noise was.

Thanks to Mark (a fellow forum member) and Max at cartek who put dual springs in previosly there seems to be no internal engine damage. I will be putting comp 921's on soon and will be back on the road.

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Glad to hear it will be as simple and inexpensive as just replacing valve springs.
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Old Apr 6, 2009 | 11:28 AM
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Hmmmm...that car looks familiar!!!!!

Glad to hear the dual springs worked for you. I definitely would not have done single springs knowing how catastrophic a failure could be.

Now get that thing fixed so you can enjoy the warm weather with the top down!!!!



PS---I couldn't see the pic in the thread.
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