valve job question

[Stowe, Ted-SEA]

hmm well these are more like burned oil deposits, actually the more WD 40 I
spray on them the more I can seem to wipe them up. I will go get a can of
that GM top engine cleaner. sounds like a nicer thing to do.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	William T Wilson [SMTP:fluffy at snurgle.org]
> Sent:	Monday, May 03, 1999 11:24 AM
> To:	diy_efi at efi332.eng.ohio-state.edu
> Subject:	Re: valve job question
> 
> On Sun, 2 May 1999, Shannen Durphey wrote:
> 
> > > Cleaning the carbon deposits off of the piston isn't really all that
> > > important because they just come right back when the engine runs the
> next
> > > time.
> >
> > Sounds like a tire shop I went to once.  "No need to clean the mud off
> > the wheel before we balance it.  It just gets muddy again anyway."
> 
> Heh.  No, that's different, because the carbon deposits don't affect the
> operation of the engine.  Really.  Unless there's so much of it that it
> causes dieseling.
> 
> My suggestion is more akin to saying "no need to clean the mud off the
> wheel before you rotate the tires."
> 
> :}