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Old 10-15-2006, 07:57 AM
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You can always drive around town in 2nd gear @ 9000 rpm
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I would just hope the hard goo is not the fist stage of the hard stuff which will lock these values.

It dose seem that some high revving is helpful in avoiding this issue. I also wonder if a catch can will help or hurt this issue.
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You can always drive around town in 2nd gear @ 9000 rpm
Heh...its just getting expensive to open the f'n sticky valves...I'm about to pull a ferris bullers day off and put the car on stands with a brick...and put a can of carb cleaner down its throat...
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Hey...anything wrong with leaving the aux ports stuck to open all the time?

And I dont mean emissions BS...
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Old 07-26-2008, 10:41 PM
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wow twink,

almost 2 years!

beers
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wow twink,

almost 2 years!

beers
bearly 568mi's for me tho...heh

sticky aux valves on replacement....FTL
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Hey...anything wrong with leaving the aux ports stuck to open all the time?

And I dont mean emissions BS...
Air not flowing fast enough ?
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sticky aux valves on replacement....FTL
what symptoms do you notice evil ?
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sticky valves produce those noticeable surges during port transition...

going to mess with it tomorrow...
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You can always drive around town in 2nd gear @ 9000 rpm
So. I do that all the time in the 110 heat
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nevermind, lol
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