This is a weird question but, How do you guys think the engine valves on a engine that is freshly rebuilt will react to shredded paper towel soaked in fuel flowing through the heads into the cylinder?
I do want to say this paper towel is shredded so thin that if it was mixed in mashed potatoes you wouldn’t notice it in taste. Granted you can see it though.
Paper towel went through the valve this weekend and the car flooded. Once we cleaned most of it out the car was able to crank and it ran rough until all the paper towel and fuel was out of the system. I don’t think this will have any effect on anything. The engine isn’t knocking or have any sudden noises or smoking. No overheating or anything. I do have to check the oil pressure but, oil is getting to the top of the engine because I removed the oil cap to make sure.
Long story short: I want to know, what do you all think the effect would be if any?
Remind me not to eat the mashed potato’s at your Christmas dinner.
I agree with @Rocketman and stay away from groups of ,Tie dyed, love children, dancing around my car and throwing flower petals everywhere. or confetti.
How much paper towel are we talking about?
It’s probably coated some of the catalytic converter honeycomb. It’s burned residue might have coated a few items too, like the spark plug electrodes or the valve seats, but it sounds like you lucked out.
Have you looked at the spark plugs?
I doubt the paper going through “valves” has an effect on the engine “values.” You know you can edit your title so future browsers will find your real issue.
@ken green I think it would get caught by the cat if so that’s fine. If it clogs it I can get a high flow cat to got along with the flowmaster that is already installed.
@the same mountainbike about 6 but, we took the throttle body off and cranked it a couple of times and majority of it blew out.
@insightful Thanks, sorry about that. I’m glad you all was able to understand the question.
Six paper towels??? Wow. No wonder it stalled!
I’ll bet that what didn’t come out is now crispy-coating on the cat converter honeycomb.
You might have coated the upstream oxygen sensor too, so don’t be surprised if you have some fuel metering issues.
