2LTE missing and smoking

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Bulletproof
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2LTE missing and smoking

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My son has a 1992 surf 2LTE that is missing when you go to accelerate and at 50kph on the road.

It has good compressions and a new head

Any ideas

Richard
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Re: 2LTE missing and smoking

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can you elaborate a bit more.

what color smoke is it putting out and when is it smoking?
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Re: 2LTE missing and smoking

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tweake wrote:can you elaborate a bit more.

what color smoke is it putting out and when is it smoking?


It is blueish grey and seems to miss badly as you accelerate and then gets better

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Re: 2LTE missing and smoking

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could be it sucking in a bit of oil either via the breather or turbo seals.

the other thing is sticky egr valve.
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