Mark VIII smoking out the exhaust...

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Well hubby has a Lincoln Mark VIII 1997 LSC. He has nitrous on it and have put many bottles on (100 shot.) When we were driving and we were racing at the time,the motor started chugging and didnt have as much balls as before. It started smoking out the exhaust. We took it to auto zone and had a read out on it and they said that piston 8 wasnt firing. Would that make it smoke??
 
The autozone code only tells you which cylinder is mis-firing.

Since hubby seems to be an experienced nitrous user, it'd be fairly obvious why a certian cylinder would be

a. mis-firing
b. smoking
c. running rough
d. didn't have as much balls as before (Love the choice of words)

a. could be simply a bad coil boot or spark plug {plugs are often closed up/broken by nitrous)
b. smoking generally means you have "nicked a piston" or busted a ring lang which is common when using nitrous
c.busted ring land or otherwise comprimised combustion chamber/cylinder/headgasket
(depends greatly on the color and composition of the smoke)
d. when you lose a significant amount of power, consider that losing 1 of 8 cylinders is a considerable amount of the engines output

If you add ABCD together you wind up with long term detonation (probably in-audible) that over the course of many bottles of 100 shot finally took out one of the ring lands, or simply a clogged fuel filter leaned out the mixture suddenly and the car "popped a headgasket"
{if your lucky it's only a gasket and not any of the "hard parts mentioned above)

WITH that said..
I would pull, inspect and replace the #8 coil boot and spark plug.

If the problem continues.. STOP.. and R&R the motor

R&R= Remove and Replace

they are cheap motors, no sense in "opening one up" other than to see what broke. Too expensive to repair when the junkyards are full of "willing nitrous swallowers"
 
its the spark plug wires. the 97 wires are REALLY hard to find, and are expensive. replace them and the problem will go away.

more info about that problem on this link
(link is gone along with you)
 
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97s didnt have spark plug wires. The coil boots could be cracked or broken though. They are fairly cheap and real easy to replace. While doing the boots you better change the plugs too, just for good measure. I would think you could do both boots and plugs for under $100.
 
^^ try it in IE. you have to read it, seems like 97 was a split year for COP and plug wires.
 
That definitly is some useful information to have. I guess it`s a good thing I have a 98 and never ever ever have to worry about that problem coming up.
 
Mr. Taylor earned himself a 10 day suspension.
I was going to do way more.
I was running a program to edit high definition files and lost 2 hours of converting time under a schedule to complete.
Some guys are such a$$holes they don't even know it.
He pulls that crap again and it is byebye.
 
BlackMarkVIII said:
Well hubby has a Lincoln Mark VIII 1997 LSC. He has nitrous on it and have put many bottles on (100 shot.) When we were driving and we were racing at the time,the motor started chugging and didnt have as much balls as before. It started smoking out the exhaust. We took it to auto zone and had a read out on it and they said that piston 8 wasnt firing. Would that make it smoke??
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To answer your question because no one else will or they simply don't know, you have either a burnt piston ring and bad valve or valve guide in Cylinder #8.

The engine design does not allow for coolant to pass in and around cylinder #8 on the driver's side cylinder head. The coolant "dead ends" there.

I would limp the car over to a shop and have them perform not only a compression test, but a cylinder leak test. If oil is coming out as smoke, it will be blue in color. Either the oil is getting into the compression area of the cylinder past the rings or it coming from the cylinder head. Either way, it is getting burnt in the cylinder and passing out the exhaust.

Hope that helps.

I would say do the tests recommended and then you will know whether to pull the head and go from there.
 
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I would love to personally slap the piss out of BryanTaylor....


....I just lost a powerpoint I had been working on for about 2 hours for a class thats due tomorrow, along with my mozilla session of the web pages I was using, thanks ass.


Thanks Bryan for disciplining him.
 
I just don't get how you guys lost stuff because of that link... you just click the window it opens up and wait for the bitch to stop moving around... then you x the window out, and hit ok about 500 times on the thing that pops up, and it closes.
 
My computer is a powerhouse, but with all the apps I had running it froze up.

On a side note, I just created a pretty sick virus that'll just wipe the c drive, anyone wanna test it?
 
Just FYI, that link likes to work its way into a lot of links. Meaning he could have mistakenly posted that. Although I don't know his sense of humor so he could have done it on purpose. :p

Yeah, my friend's Mark VIII is so damn slow. Running on 7 cylinders with the 1/8 down. It's not fun to drive. ;p
 
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