dead on the money
Rick Morrison
72 MGBGT
74 Midget
On Mon, 19 Oct 1998 14:04:49 -0400 Fred Cheney <FCheney@kinneyassoc.com>
writes:
>The name of the game is "Confirm my fears"
>
>This weekend I spent some quality time with my '72 B. The most
>pressing
>concern was to adjust the carbs to bring the idle down from 1500 to
>less
>than 1000 and get rid of the stench of running too rich. To this end
>I
>was successul. After the car had run for about 45 minutes I took it
>for
>a check out spin, upon returning to the driveway I was greeted by a
>HUGE
>oil puddle right where the car had been parked. I quickly parked the
>car and checked the oil level, which was slightly overfull. The oil
>cap
>had a slight brown foam in it and I found the oil leak to be from the
>dipstick tube as there was oil all over the distributer and starter.
>I
>pulled plug #1 & #2. #1 was wet (not oil or gas) #2 dry and sooty.
>Exterior of cylinder head at #1 had sign of coolant leak. My guess is
>this: (1) The DPO knew of a headgasket leak and that the car was
>running
>on 3 cylinders....thus oddly adjusted carbs. (2) The headgasket at #1
>is blown causing both external coolant leak as well as internal
>coolant
>consumption (3) Headgasket is also blown so that combustion gasses
>are
>causing excess crank pressures and leakage at dipstick tube.
>
>How close do you think I am?
>
>Fred Cheney
>'72 MGB
>
>
>
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