The oil pumping is due to crankcase pressurization.
Either add crankcase ventilation elsewhere. The fuel
pump opening is a good spot, if you are using an
electric fuel pump.
There may also be excessive blow-by, if the rings are
worn. Is this a high mileage motor?
You can fabricate an oil trap, with a catch tank, the
vent from the tank hooked to the carb to catch the
vapors.
Try to set the new cover like the old one. Did the old
valve cover have a vent tube? If not, then cap off the
new one.
Good Luck,
Carter Shore
--- Howard Baugues <bauguesh@abcs.com> wrote:
>
> I received this plea for help from a fellow Spitfire
> owner. If anyone
> can offer suggestions, please respond directly to
> him.
> Thanks,
> Howard
> =============================================
> Respond to Kevin Kwildner1@aol.com
> =============================================
> I"ll confess now...I really came to you with a
> problem i'm
> having. I too have a '76 Spit and I replaced that
> nasty Stromburg with a
>
> delightfully strong weber DGV and header setup
> (strong pull all the
> way). I
> also replaced the original valve cover with an
> aftermarket aluminum
> cover
> with no baffel inside. I used an Bud beer can and
> cut it to create a
> baffel
> of sorts (heck I thought it looked pretty good)
> anyway, I hooked the
> vent
> tube from the valve cover to the plastic elbow on
> the air cleaner (the
> only
> possible place it could go). I've got oil pumping
> into my air cleaner by
> the
> buckets because 1) the carb sits lower than the
> cover 2) the baffel is
> not
> the best in the world and 3) lots of compression on
> this motor.
> Here is my question.....what the heck can I do to
> correct this? Is
> there a
> fix that I'm missing? I'm to the point now of
> sticking a "catch can" (a
> coffee can) with the hose from the valve cover
> running to it as a dump.
> ( a
> really crappy idea I know). Any ideas would be
> appreciated.
> Great web site....Take care.
> Kevin Kwildner1@aol.com
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