Joe,
I'm getting an oil/water mix in the overflow off the oilpan on my Spitfire
autocrosser... and the water level is staying contant in the cooling system.
Are you losing water from the cooling system? If not, it may just be
condensation in the catch tank.
Cheers,
Jim
'76 Spitfire DM autocrosser
.. and a few other projects :-)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-fot@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-fot@autox.team.net]On
> Behalf Of jaboruch
> Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 8:33 PM
> To: Friends of Triumph
> Subject: Pocono
>
>
> After 5 years of fog and rain at Pocono in May, we finally had a nice
> weekend. Saturday was sunny and 70's, while Sunday was cool and
> cloudy but dry :-) I ran in the double race weekend with the Volvo
> Historic Series. Saturday, I started 2nd overall and finshed there
> with a class victory. A killer Volvo P1800 ran away and hid at the
> start. Sunday, I had a little rougher time with the cold track, since
> I am running older tires. I flat spotted one in turn 1 trying for a
> fast lap in qualifying. I Started the race 5th over all and finished
> there after some dicing with some Volvo 122's and an Alfa, and again
> had a class victory. I got stuck also dicing with a Corvette that was
> also killing a few mosquitoes, and oiling the track. I would pass him
> in the corners, only to be blown away by him in the straights. I
> almost had him at the finish line, but he had a few extra hundred
> horsepower than me.
> I am still having water in the oil problems, after having gone thru
> the engine before this race. The head is coming off again to see if I
> missed something. The puke can is overflowing with a milky oil/water
> mix, but the oil in the pan is looking clean. It looks like the oil
> is getting hot enough in the race to vaporize the water and push it to
> the puke can. At least this time I have a month until my next race.
> It should be enough time to get the engine back together, as well as
> my rear axle rebuilt to replace the broken ring an pinion from NHIS.
> Joe(B)
>
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