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1. Is this normal?? (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:58:26 -0600; so I now have well over 8 miles on the 59 Bugeye. I start to smell what I recognize as BURNING OIL!!!! After I stop the car I notice the large diameter metal pipe sticking out of the exhaust side of; /html/spridgets/2004-12/msg00364.html (7,265 bytes)
2. Re: Is this normal?? (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 14:40:25 -0600 with any abuse report; He could be referring to the dipstick pipe... If so, sounds like a crankcase ventilation/blowby problem. David Lieb; /html/spridgets/2004-12/msg00369.html (7,551 bytes)
3. Re: Is this normal?? (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 15:48:02 -0500; Methinks he is referring to the breather pipe connected to one of the tappet covers. -- jay fishbein wallingford, ct http://home.ix.netcom.com/~type79/ <http://home.ix.netcom.com/%7Etype79/>; /html/spridgets/2004-12/msg00370.html (8,071 bytes)
4. Re: Is this normal?? (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 16:01:08 -0500; I think that he means the daught tube (crankcase breather) on a 948? My Lotus Seven deposits oil out all of its possible places even some it is not supposed ;^)). My cement garage floor will never ru; /html/spridgets/2004-12/msg00371.html (8,543 bytes)
5. RE: Is this normal?? (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 14:59:35 -0600; Could we be talking the Timing Chain cover breather pipe here ?? Duncan; /html/spridgets/2004-12/msg00373.html (7,757 bytes)
6. RE: Is this normal?? (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 15:04:47 -0600; Sure there is, on a 948... there's a vent tube from the tappet covers... points down. Gravity in use..... --Original Message-- From owner-spridgets at Autox.Team.Net [mailto:owner-spridgets@Autox.Tea; /html/spridgets/2004-12/msg00374.html (8,412 bytes)
7. Re: Is this normal?? (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 15:16:57 -0600; Woe be it for me to suggest that the good pilot is pulling my leg.. but... I am certain that it is there for that purpose but how much oil is normal?? And is the car supposed to sound like there are; /html/spridgets/2004-12/msg00375.html (9,262 bytes)
8. Re: Is this normal?? (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:33:41 -0800 reply-type=original; The only thing he could be talking about would be the tappet cover vent tube. Its about an inch or two long, taking a downward elbow bend to point at the ground. It was soldered to the frontmost of t; /html/spridgets/2004-12/msg00379.html (8,636 bytes)
9. RE: Is this normal?? (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 15:48:03 -0600; Hey, occasionally I let the bits out of a race motor, but not very often. My stuff is usually assembled from cast off or used stuff... it lives 3 to 6 race seasons at 8500 rpm.... Rocks rolling aroun; /html/spridgets/2004-12/msg00383.html (8,600 bytes)
10. Re: Is this normal?? (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 15:52:09 -0600; Ok, Mike is describing the right part but the question is still, "How much is normal?" Should I be generating smoke like a Culp's Special at an Airshow or mere puddles on the frame rails, or the mere; /html/spridgets/2004-12/msg00385.html (9,639 bytes)
11. Re: Is this normal?? (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 15:55:44 -0600; ARRGGHHHH!!!!!! Let's see, if I use oil a a quart every 100 miles how many quarts would i need to burn to equal one solid engine rebuild plus the damage of having to get that damned thing back out of; /html/spridgets/2004-12/msg00387.html (8,565 bytes)
12. Re: Is this normal?? (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 16:08:18 -0600; Yes, but what and how far down does the "tapered Road Draft tip" go?? Oh yeah.. it's running real RICH too... how do I fix that... and no, I haven't checked timing, or compression, or spark plug gap.; /html/spridgets/2004-12/msg00390.html (9,482 bytes)
13. Re: Is this normal?? (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 16:25:07 -0600; I'll measure it when I get home and tell you the 8 mile answer... ;-) Until I get the "rocks in a can" noises figured out I'm not going far in this puppy. And how did they engineer it that at 25 mph; /html/spridgets/2004-12/msg00395.html (9,111 bytes)
14. Re: Is this normal?? (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 17:57:26 -0500; Yes there is, the draft tube from the lifter cover. It looks like a metal pipe sticking out of the exhaust side of the engine. And without proper PCV, it will spit oil out. Now the Bugeye only had a; /html/spridgets/2004-12/msg00401.html (9,400 bytes)
15. Re: Is this normal?? (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 18:11:47 -0500; Got one one my 1098. Works like a charm! (whatever that is worth). Dan -- Original Message -- From "Frank Clarici" <spritenut at exit109.com> To: "Robert E. Shlafer" <PilotRob@webtv.net> Cc: "Lester; /html/spridgets/2004-12/msg00402.html (9,819 bytes)
16. Re: Is this normal?? (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 18:48:18 -0500; hey lester? possibly do you have rocks or something similar in your gas tank? very possible that something is or was dropped into your tank either by a child fooling around or some mischevious person; /html/spridgets/2004-12/msg00410.html (9,513 bytes)
17. Re: Is this normal?? (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 18:21:37 -0600; Check under your hubcaps for lugnuts that have come off!!! NOW!!!; /html/spridgets/2004-12/msg00413.html (9,033 bytes)
18. Re: Is this normal?? (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 22:17:45 -0500; Those guys were good eh? I bet no car maker of today can duplicate that. -- Frank; /html/spridgets/2004-12/msg00424.html (9,021 bytes)
19. Re: Is this normal?? (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:07:39 -0600; Well some of the noise comes from the shocks as I can duplicate it by rocking the car side to side. That said, some of it happens at slow forward speeds, like the last 20 feet before a stop sign, not; /html/spridgets/2004-12/msg00438.html (10,694 bytes)
20. Re: Is this normal?? (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:08:54 -0600; Ya know, I was thinking about that. After all the bad things that were done by the PO's it never occurred to me to take off the hubcaps.. I'll do that when the temps get out of the 20's.. LEster; /html/spridgets/2004-12/msg00439.html (9,259 bytes)

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