I started off my day in a bad mood, and didn't make it much better.
I put together the oil cooler hose in a manner that I figured would not
leak. Then I took the valve cover off, started the car out on the driveway
with a sheet of cardboard under it and watched the oil in motion after
checking that the oil cooler hose is staying dry. I was surprised to see a
minute amount of oil working its way through some of those little holes in
the rockers. I thought that there should be more and that it should be
consistent across the bunch. Slowly, they started to fill up and flow
through. I tried to move around the rockers, from side to side, with some
success. Then the oil starts to slightly overflow the top of the head at
the front right. It seems that the car is parked with the front down lower.
No problem, I just push it forward on the driveway. Still overflowing. The
spring seems to be making waves that push it over the edge. Shut down.
Look under the car and ... I've pushed it off the cardboard and there is oil
on the driveway. <sigh> Clean up the excess. Look for another leak. Find
a pool on the edge of the front frame under the oil filter. Clean things up
as best I can to see if I can figure out where it is coming from. Start it
up. Feel around to see what's getting wet and nothing is. Stand up to see
how the rockers are doing and one of them is doing the bleeding knight from
the Monty Python movie. It is squirting over the edge onto the spark plug.
Shut down. Check underneath again and there is oil on the lip of the right
front frame rail again, but no apparent place that it is coming from. Clean
it off and start up again, but this time I have to catch the oil as it is
spurting over the side. Nothing seems to have leaked to the frame or to the
ground this time.
- I do not recall seeing any blue smoke while running with the valve cover
off.
- Do oil coolers work by exposing the oil to the open air? ( my
observation )
That's as far as I got before errands set in. Now back to my regularly
scheduled errands.
Robert D.
-----Original Message-----
From David Ramsey <dwramsey at worldnet.att.net>
To: Robert Duquette <RobertDuquette@Sympatico.ca>
Date: July 27, 2001 12:37 PM
Subject: Re: Robert's Blue smoke
>You dirty packrat, don't need no gasket. If the rockers are in good shape
>you can run the engine for 10 minutes with only a rag wipe once and a
while.
>If their bad it will look like a bunch of lawn sprinklers throwing oil all
>over the place and filling the top of the head (and valve seats) with oil.
> Crash
>
>>I tried to make my gasket stick better to the cover than to the head.
>>Packrat Bob
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