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Posted by: mikelsr Sep 11 2005, 04:39 PM

I have oil on the left side engine tin and I can't see where it is coming from. There is a hose that connects there but I have tighten the clamp and it didn't make a difference. Any ideas?

TIA

Posted by: bd1308 Sep 11 2005, 05:08 PM

take a can of carb cleaner clean everything out....let it sit for several hours....go driving and look whaere its coming from

Posted by: Aaron Cox Sep 11 2005, 06:06 PM

do you have a breather setup?

These cars tend to get a light mist of oil on them out the breather.....

check your head vent tubes.... make sure they are on all the way and clamped nice and tight....

Posted by: Aaron Cox Sep 11 2005, 06:07 PM

QUOTE (bd1308 @ Sep 11 2005, 04:08 PM)
take a can of carb cleaner clean everything out....let it sit for several hours....go driving and look whaere its coming from

and kiss your NON powdercoated engine tin goodbye....

carb cleaner eats paint

Posted by: URY914 Sep 11 2005, 06:46 PM

QUOTE (Aaron Cox @ Sep 11 2005, 04:07 PM)

QUOTE (bd1308 @ Sep 11 2005, 04:08 PM)
take a can of carb cleaner clean everything out....let it sit for several hours....go driving and look whaere its coming from

and kiss your NON powdercoated engine tin goodbye....

carb cleaner eats paint

Carb cleaner too strong for paint.

Posted by: mikelsr Sep 12 2005, 05:55 AM

Thanks for the pointers. I thought that the oil was coming from the head vent tube and I had already tightened up the clamp on the hose. I guess I should also have said that I am running carbs (Dellorto) with the K&N filters (I haven't oiled them).

I will check the hose going to the vent tube, maybe it has a hole in it that comes and goes with temperature/pressure.

Also what is the highest-safest oil temperature? I was running at 210 yesterday coming home from an AX. It was around 90 out and I had an hour and a half drive to get back home.

Again TIA

Posted by: Dave_Darling Sep 12 2005, 11:37 AM

212F is a great temperature for motor oil to be. (Others say 180F, but I feel that's not warm enough!) Helps boil out the water in the oil quickly. 240F is "hot", 250F is "too damn hot". As in "shut it down right now!"

--DD