[Shotimes] Engine Trouble

Zach Leahy leahyz@gmail.com
Tue, 18 Oct 2005 09:09:03 -0500


Or be a cheapskate and probably do better with a tube of snesor safe rtv.
 BTW, you can get it in caulking gun tubes from Napa, when you use the
volume we use (on old 30's cars) it's a lot better than sqeezing the little
tube.
 Z

 On 10/17/05, Leigh Smith <leighsm@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> Pop for a valve cover set with plug well seals. When I compared the old
> 90k
> mile ones to the new set, they were so flat/bad I am surprised they held
> back any oil at all.
> Lee
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Doug Copeland" <doug.copeland@gmail.com>
> To: "Rich Bruso" <shoguy_89@cox.net>
> Cc: <shotimes@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 9:35 PM
> Subject: Re: [Shotimes] Engine Trouble
>
>
> > Ok I just replaced the plugs so that the oil could drain. Probably not
> the
> > best idea but hey. The old plugs were almost completely drowned in oil
> when
> > i pulled them out. No wonder they had problems. I put it all back
> together
> > and fired up the car, and of course as expected it was a little cranky.
> I
> > let it run for a few minutes blowing a nice oil cloud of death into the
> > neighborhood, and then my girlfriend alerted me that i had some smoke
> coming
> > from the engine bay. It is probably just a little from when i pulled the
> > drenched plugs out. In a few minutes i'm going to fire it up again and
> see
> > what happens.
> > Oh and yes i am getting a CE light, so maybe the DIS is to blame too. It
> is
> > probably just old and hates me. Do you know where I can find one? I
> think
> > it's about time I find some plug seals too!
> >
> > Doug
> > 95 mtx
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