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Re: 1500 Venting

To: spitfires@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: 1500 Venting
From: Joe Curry <spitlist@gte.net>
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 21:06:53 -0500 (EST)
Yes, YOu will have a closed system that will blow oil out the Dipstick
Tube!!!

Joe

Trevor Boicey wrote:
>
> Larry Elswick wrote:
> >
> > All this talk about crankcase pressure
> > relief has me wondering. I just finished
> > a rebuild and added an electric fuel pump.
> > I also added the vent pipe from the fuel
> > pump opening. I still have the vent hose
> > from the valve cover running into the HS-4's
> > like a stock configuration. Should I do away with
> > these vent hoses? Thanks!
>
>   If you have the vent hose from the valve cover,
> then you can block off the vent pipe at the
> fuel pump opening. Then you have a working closed
> system.
>
> --
> Trevor Boicey, P. Eng.
> Ottawa, Canada, tboicey@brit.ca
> ICQ #17432933 http://www.brit.ca/~tboicey/
> Waiting for Guffman.

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