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Old 12-21-2006, 08:32 AM   #15 (permalink)
autozen
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Date registered: Sep 2006
Vehicle: Many MBs
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Quote:
Originally Posted by diametricalbenz
The valve adjustment will help but if it ran before it will run now.
Not necessarilly. Tight valves may be the key to his problem. The weather has just turned cold, and the lower the temp, the tighter the valves get. It can lead to lowered compression, and you need compression to make a compression ignition engine to fire. Those air molecules need to be compressed into a tight space to raise combustion temp to about 900 degrees F.
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