I don't recall how recently you said the engine was rebuilt, but you may
be smelling the remnants of the assembly lubricant. Lots of people use
an assembly lubricant when rebuilding to provide some initial
lubrication until there's oil pressure.
Chris K.
Robert Duquette wrote:
>
> Get much exercise that way??? :)
>
> It must be my imagination that the engine oil had that odour also, 'cause
> the PO says that it is GTX. Unless there is some strange ritual when
> rebuilding engines?
>
> Robert D.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>
> > Then I put it in the back of my car so I could bring
> >it to work today.
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