[Spridgets] A whole heck of a lot of oil suddenly
CosmicMag1380
cosmicmag1380 at gmail.com
Wed Apr 14 19:36:16 MDT 2010
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Chris Manuel <cmanuel at wi.rr.com> wrote:
The whole engine was covered in oil, and it was coming out of the
breather on the valve cover.
This is new to me. Pardon my acronyms but WTF? Did something dislodge
somewhere and plug a port? I'm at a loss on this one.
I would suspect a broken ring letting the compression seep into the
crankcase (blowby). Do a compression test to rule it out.
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Kent
1960 Bugeye
1967 Sprite - following in the 73's footsteps to the boneyard...
1969 Midget - just a shell of its former self
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