Rick,
This is beginning to sound like a chorus. The very next thing I
will do is vent the valve cover before anything else. The consensus of
the list demands it.
Mike
Rick Lindsay wrote:
>>Gerard also mentioned that I am probably
>>building up pressure in the valve cover (not
>>vented) because the oil is not draining back
>>into the motor, forcing oil to go the only
>>place it can, down the intake valve stem on the
>>intake stroke.
>>
>>
>
>If you have any blow-by at all, you are probably pressurizing the crankcase.
> I don't let
>that stuff get back into the intake but rather, I
>vent it via a hose, down below the car. Oily
>blow-by gasses reduce the effective octane of the
>charge promoting preignition.
>
>rick
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