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Re: Oil leak [was Re: Massey Ferguson]

To: "Reed Mideke" <rmideke@interbase.com>, "Egil Kvaleberg" <egil@kvaleberg.no>
Subject: Re: Oil leak [was Re: Massey Ferguson]
From: "Brian Sanborn" <sanborn@net1plus.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 20:27:45 -0500charset="iso-8859-1"
Cc: <triumphs@Autox.Team.Net>
Egil,

Is it possible that you have a pressure build up in the engine.

My car was dumping a lot of oil out the pores but stopped to almost nothing
when I removed a plug in the breather system used to bypass the PCV valve.

Brian Sanborn
62 TR4          CT16260L  - Groton,  MA
sanborn@net1plus.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Reed Mideke <rmideke@interbase.com>
To: Egil Kvaleberg <egil@kvaleberg.no>
Cc: triumphs@autox.team.net <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Date: Monday, November 23, 1998 12:06 PM
Subject: Oil leak [was Re: Massey Ferguson]


>
>Egil Kvaleberg wrote:
>>
>[...]
>>
>> Speaking of which: My engine has developed an oil leak of a certain
>> severity - enough to make me have to top up the oil more often than
usual.
>> I've trained in vain to find the source. It seems it only happens at
>> speed: there is certainly not a drop of oil even after 15 minutes at
idle.
>>
>I've had this problem with an oil pressure switch. The sender for a
>gauge could probably have a similar problem.
>
>--
>Reed Mideke                                        rmideke@interbase.com
>


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