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RE: rear seal

To: "'robert weeks'" <robert@woozy.com>
Subject: RE: rear seal
From: Andrew Griffith <Andrew.Griffith@ReadRite.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 16:37:13 -0800
Cc: "'Spridgets@Autox.Team.Net'" <Spridgets@autox.team.net>
Reply-to: Andrew Griffith <Andrew.Griffith@ReadRite.com>
Sender: owner-spridgets@autox.team.net
        Sorry I meant to say "Blow-by"... must have been a Freudian slip.
        -Drew

        Have you checked for bow-by? Maybe the new rings are not seated
properly... if that's the case then open the oil cap and feel for pressure
escaping?

        -Drew

                -----Original Message-----
                From:   robert weeks [SMTP:robert@woozy.com]
                Sent:   Friday, February 19, 1999 3:16 PM
                To:     Hanna, Mark
                Cc:     'Spridgets@Autox.Team.Net'
                Subject:        RE: rear seal

                Possible, but I have a Weber DGV, so the only fitting for
crankcase venting
                is from the air filter to the breather on the timing cover.
This is hooked
                up. If it was a little oil, I could see that maybe being the
cause, but
                this is literally pouring out. I don't know where I screwed
up but I
                imagine I'll find out soon as the rain stops and I get a
chance to pull the
                engine again.

                Thanks,

                Robert

                -------------------------

                >Robert ,
                >Is it possible that you are somehow pressurizing the
crankcase ? Maybe a
                >problem with the PVC system ?
                >Mark Hanna
                >AN5L/13731
                >P.S. LONG LIVE THE LIST !!!
                >
                >> -----Original Message-----
                >> From:        robert weeks [SMTP:robert@woozy.com]
                >> Sent:        Friday, February 19, 1999 2:54 PM
                >> To:  spridgets@autox.team.net
                >> Subject:     rear seal
                >>
                >> Hi,
                >>
                >> Thanks to everyone who has helped me with this engine
from hell so far.
                >> Everything is running great now except that oil is
literally pouring out
                >> of
                >> the back of the engine. I've never seen anything like it.
I'm losing 1/2
                >> quart of oil in 15 miles of driving. I screwed up
somewhere and the engine
                >> will have to come out again (oh, joy).
                >>
                >> Has anyone used the real seal kit fom MiniMania? It's on
sale for the rest
                >> of the month and I'm thinking about buying it. The last
thing I want to do
                >> is pull this engine over and over and over again to see
if the stupid rear
                >> seal, which looked right the first time, is working.
                >>
                >> Thanks,
                >>
                >> Robert (who's just about had it with this car)
                >>
                >>
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