# Burnt Valve?

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/burnt-valve/54836>\
**Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\
**Tags:** chevrolet, beretta\
**Created:** [September 8, 2010, 8:55pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/burnt-valve/54836 "2010-09-08T20:55:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 9\
**Page:** 1

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**Author:** ![EllyEllis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f14d63/32.png) [@EllyEllis](https://community.cartalk.com/u/EllyEllis)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2010, 8:55pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/burnt-valve/54836/1 "2010-09-08T20:55:21Z")

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My granddaughter’s husband just bought a very nice '94 Beretta. He brought it over for me to admire and I noticrd a put put put out the exhaust. I think he has a burnt exhaust valve, what do you think It is a 3100 V6

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**Author:** ![the\_same\_mountainbike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@the\_same\_mountainbike](https://community.cartalk.com/u/the_same_mountainbike)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2010, 8:58pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/burnt-valve/54836/2 "2010-09-08T20:58:19Z")

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If he’s happpy with it, why would you want to dampen his happiness? Leave well enough alone.

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**Author:** ![Caddyman](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/caddyman/32/23_2.png) [@Caddyman](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Caddyman)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2010, 9:00pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/burnt-valve/54836/3 "2010-09-08T21:00:01Z")

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V-6’s always have a “put-put” in the exhaust…

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**Author:** ![EllyEllis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f14d63/32.png) [@EllyEllis](https://community.cartalk.com/u/EllyEllis)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2010, 9:01pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/burnt-valve/54836/4 "2010-09-08T21:01:02Z")

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Well 5 are not putting, just one

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**Author:** ![EllyEllis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f14d63/32.png) [@EllyEllis](https://community.cartalk.com/u/EllyEllis)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2010, 3:18am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/burnt-valve/54836/5 "2010-09-09T03:18:17Z")

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Doesn’t anyone have anything to say about this? It sounds like the compression is coming right out the tailpipe.

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**Author:** ![EllyEllis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f14d63/32.png) [@EllyEllis](https://community.cartalk.com/u/EllyEllis)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2010, 3:21am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/burnt-valve/54836/6 "2010-09-09T03:21:31Z")

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He’s happy right now but he won’t be when it blows up from running on 5 cylinders!

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**Author:** ![JayWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e480ec/32.png) [@JayWB](https://community.cartalk.com/u/JayWB)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2010, 3:32am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/burnt-valve/54836/7 "2010-09-09T03:32:26Z")

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Quit guessing and run a compression test.

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**Author:** ![EllyEllis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f14d63/32.png) [@EllyEllis](https://community.cartalk.com/u/EllyEllis)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2010, 4:08am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/burnt-valve/54836/8 "2010-09-09T04:08:00Z")

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Well, I don’t have the equipment or place to do it but I’ll try to get him to do that.

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**Author:** ![karl-sieger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c77e96/32.png) [@karl-sieger](https://community.cartalk.com/u/karl-sieger)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2010, 4:30am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/burnt-valve/54836/9 "2010-09-09T04:30:41Z")

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Go here:

[http://www.secondchancegarage.com/public/186.cfm](http://www.secondchancegarage.com/public/186.cfm)

and click on scenario 6.

The charge for a mechanic doing this would be slim to nil.