<TABLE width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD style="PADDING-TOP: 4px" vAlign=top colSpan=2>[FONT=Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Tahoma, Arial]oil leak fixed (knock on wood)<!-- google_ad_section_end -->
[/FONT][FONT=Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Tahoma, Arial]November 7 2000 at 6:49 AM[FONT=Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Tahoma, Arial][/FONT][/FONT]</TD><TD vAlign=top align=right>[FONT=Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Tahoma, Arial]bob danielak [/FONT]</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=bottom colSpan=3><HR></TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=3>[FONT=Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Tahoma, Arial]<!-- google_ad_section_start -->hi guys,
thought i might pass along something i found
this past weekend.
my '87 X had a very bad oil leak.
seemed that oil was coming out of everywhere.
the PO and I had tried several times to re-torque
head bollt, cam-box bolts, etc.
i was beginning to think that the engine was put together *without gaskets*.
it was that bad...
remembering how one of my fuel-injected spiders
began to spew oil in the same fashion
if i disconnected the crankcase breather hose,
i decided to investigate.
i pulled the hose and plastic T-fitting between the crankcase breather outlet on the back of the engine and the big rubber air intake hose.
inside the hose is a flame-trap (little coily thing).
this was encrusted with ages of oily gunk.
and the plastic T-fitting was partially blocked
with similar gunk.
cleaned both pieces in solvent and replaced.
so far, so good.
no major leaks, anymore.
i wonder why this is such a problem with EFI cars,
but not on carbed cars.
i routinely disconnected the crankcase breather hose from the air-cleaner on my carbed cars.
usually, i'd run a longer piece of hose under the car to divert the fumes.
this never caused oil leaks due to excessive crankcase pressure.
and did not seem to effect performance in the least (except for the fact that it didn't gunk
up my carb).
on a co-worker's suggestion, i once tried running
the breather hose into my exhaust (via a check valve or something, i forget now).
he claimed that this was done on race cars
...better than a tuurboo, he says...
this didn't work so well for a lot of reasons,
but this and the injected spider (oh yeah, it was a turbo spider) it did open my eyes to the importance of good vacuum on the breather...
so why doesn't it seem to help a carbed car?
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[/FONT][FONT=Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Tahoma, Arial]November 7 2000 at 6:49 AM[FONT=Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Tahoma, Arial][/FONT][/FONT]</TD><TD vAlign=top align=right>[FONT=Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Tahoma, Arial]bob danielak [/FONT]</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=bottom colSpan=3><HR></TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=3>[FONT=Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Tahoma, Arial]<!-- google_ad_section_start -->hi guys,
thought i might pass along something i found
this past weekend.
my '87 X had a very bad oil leak.
seemed that oil was coming out of everywhere.
the PO and I had tried several times to re-torque
head bollt, cam-box bolts, etc.
i was beginning to think that the engine was put together *without gaskets*.
it was that bad...
remembering how one of my fuel-injected spiders
began to spew oil in the same fashion
if i disconnected the crankcase breather hose,
i decided to investigate.
i pulled the hose and plastic T-fitting between the crankcase breather outlet on the back of the engine and the big rubber air intake hose.
inside the hose is a flame-trap (little coily thing).
this was encrusted with ages of oily gunk.
and the plastic T-fitting was partially blocked
with similar gunk.
cleaned both pieces in solvent and replaced.
so far, so good.
no major leaks, anymore.
i wonder why this is such a problem with EFI cars,
but not on carbed cars.
i routinely disconnected the crankcase breather hose from the air-cleaner on my carbed cars.
usually, i'd run a longer piece of hose under the car to divert the fumes.
this never caused oil leaks due to excessive crankcase pressure.
and did not seem to effect performance in the least (except for the fact that it didn't gunk
up my carb).
on a co-worker's suggestion, i once tried running
the breather hose into my exhaust (via a check valve or something, i forget now).
he claimed that this was done on race cars
...better than a tuurboo, he says...
this didn't work so well for a lot of reasons,
but this and the injected spider (oh yeah, it was a turbo spider) it did open my eyes to the importance of good vacuum on the breather...
so why doesn't it seem to help a carbed car?
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