I also have a 1980 Spitfire. Where are you located?
Sounds like you have excessive blow-by past the rings. Gasses from the
combustion "blows by" the rings, which builds up the pressure in the
crankcase, which pushes the oil out of every orifice, especially the dip
stick hole. How 's your EGR system? It's supposed to re-circulate the
crankcase gasses to the carb and burn them with the incoming air. It may be
blocked or otherwise non-functioning.
I had a similar experience a couple of years ago. After a long drive, I
would find oil everywhere around the dipstick, including burning on the
exhaust system. I did a compression test on each cylinder and found that
the pressure for my Spit was 150 psi for cylinder #1, 140 psi for #2, 130
psi for #3 and 90 psi for #4. I shot a tablespoon of oil into the sparkplug
hole and repeated the compression test, and I got 160 psi across each
cylinder. This told me that it was the rings. Just my experience.
Dan Parrott
Savannah, Ga
1980 Spit "PJ"
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Sent: Sunday, October 20, 2002 1:19 AM
To: spitfires@autox.team.net
Subject: hi I'm new here, I've got a 1980 spitfire 1500..
Hi, I have a 1980 spitfire 1500 that runs very well and strong too! A
curious
thing is hapening though. I smelt oil burning, and thought perhaps it was
just residue left on the engine since it had been sitting for awile, however
on closer inspection, it is spilling out from the dipstick stem, I recently
changed the oil and put the proper amount in (4 quarts according to the
manual). Does anyone have any idea what is happening here, it's definately
not getting hot enough to boil over.
Thanks, Steve the new triumph enthusiast!
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