My '70 2K also had that stupid line on it. Now there is a
little air breather sitting on top my valve cover instead.
No more oil dumping into my nice clean carbs and
expensive air filter. Hopefully, no more hassles now!
Laters!
Eric
On Wed, 1 Oct 2003 20:21:23 -0500
"Fred Schroeder" <roadster2@texoma.net> wrote:
>My '70 2k has a good bit as well. It had 30k on it when
>I bought it (29
>years ago) and has 60k on it now. I has done this since
>I owned it. Judging
>from the number of comments regarding dirty carbs, I
>suspect this to be a
>common thing. I'm going to put a oil separator on mine
>to keep the carbs
>clean..
>
>Best regards,
>
>Fred Schroeder
>Denison, TX
>SRL311-13359
>TDROC
>Reg e-mail sitsinwest@texoma.net
>Home page http://home.texoma.net/~sitsinwest
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <bob_wilson@agilent.com>
>To: <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
>Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 9:05 AM
>Subject: Valve Cover Vent Air Flow
>
>
>> Has anyone noticed how much air (oil fumes included)
>>comes out of the 1600
>valve cover vent? I noticed that there is a lot coming
>out of mine, at idle.
>I know it is hard to discuss this without some measure of
>the flow rate. But
>I would guess that it would fill a sandwich baggie in
>about 1 second (maybe
>I should try this). Don't remember there being this much
>flow before I
>rebuilt my engine.
>>
>> Anyway, would this be a way to measure the quality of
>>"seating" between
>the rings and cylinder walls??? (still troubleshooting my
>engine).
>>
>> Bob Wilson
>> 1970 1600 stroker 28383
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