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Oil Out the Tail Pipe |
EdwardBlume |
May 22 2011, 06:06 AM
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914 Wizard Group: Members Posts: 12,338 Joined: 2-January 03 From: SLO Member No.: 81 Region Association: Central California |
I decided to fire up the pirate ship today and got it started. I just let it idle for a few minutes and then noticed oil pooling up under the exhaust on the right side. Any ideas? Been sitting for awhile.
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J P Stein |
May 22 2011, 07:59 AM
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Irrelevant old fart Group: Members Posts: 8,797 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Vancouver, WA Member No.: 45 Region Association: None |
I Been sitting for awhile. I found that my engine would drain all of the oil from the tank into the sump when sitting unused for extended periods. I would crank it over for 30-45 seconds before trying to start it to get oil back into the tank. Even them it would smoke excessively at start up. The oil level in the sump will fill up over the bottoms of the cylinders and then leak by the rings. Apparently, how much leakage depended on how the ring gaps happened to be lined up on any cylinder. The exhaust valve being open are often blamed for contributing to the leakage under these circumstances......all the planets aligned against ya.....Never had any pooling of oil on the ground tho. Flat motors have this problem apparently. Brit has had similar problems with over fill (an Accusump malfunction)of his Subie. |
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