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Subject: [Fot] topic change up - venting
From: toodamnfunky at comcast.net (JAMES GRAY)
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 07:20:05 -0600 (MDT)
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You could do what the drag race guys do and seal the system up and pull a 
vacuum on the crankcase.

Pumps are made for just that purpose. It would get you by until you decide to 
pull the motor

jim g

>     On March 12, 2018 at 8:43 PM Scott Janzen via Fot <fot at autox.team.net> 
> wrote:
> 
>     I didn?t say I wanted to race it, but since the club I race with, Vintage 
> Racer Group, just decided cars up through 1989 are vintage and eligible 
> (yeesh, frown), it should fit right in!
> 
>     Brian, I would say venting might help, but only if it?s a small leak.  If 
> you?ve got a anything more than a drop or two when the the car is stationary 
> and running, you?re going to have more when you?re braking, the oil sloshes 
> up there  and it?s hot and at higher revs.
> 
>     On Mar 12, 2018, at 7:14 PM, Brian Schirano via Fot <fot at 
> autox.team.net mailto:fot at autox.team.net > wrote:
> 
>     Hi Friends
> 
>     Sorry about stirring the pot on vintage over Scott's post on the TR4 on 
> BAT, pretty nice car though I thought, competing in my dreams for the Volvo 
> 544 with the V8
> 
>     Anywise - thinking about the oil leak coming from the front of the pan on 
> the GT and the high probability it's the sealing block.  That said, it seems 
> that if I alleviate the air pressure build up in the engine I might minimize 
> it until I actually have another reason to pull the engine.
> 
>     Has anyone ever put a PCV on the vent coming off the valve cover and 
> hooked it to the intake manifold? worked in the old days.
> 
>     Any thoughts and comments are welcome.
> 
>     Thanks
>     Brian
> 
>     26A GT6+, 28 TR6
>     Brian Schirano
>     585-305-0349 Cell 
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