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Old 05-25-2008, 09:18 PM
cg487 cg487 is offline
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Originally Posted by BathCity View Post
Here's what I've done today.
- I found a vacuum line disconnected & reconnected it. I replaced the seal on the oil fill cap, it's way tighter now.
- I went to remove the valve cover and found that the gasket was split on the "wavy" side. I removed the valve cover, checked the breather tube, it had a small bit of gunk but not much. I cleaned out the breather tube, cleaned the valve cover & used gasket, put a previously used gasket on with some high temp RTV flange sealant in the groove and on the face.
- I removed and cleaned the little oil tube that goes across the intake manifold where it bolts to the head. The breather tube dumps into this.
- I buttoned it all up and took her to the quarter car wash and washed the engine, engine bay, trans, & underside of the car to remove the oil from the fiasco yesterday.
- I ran her at 60 for a couple miles, went home and found no oil leaks this time. New oil fill seal seems to be doing the job
- I bought a diesel compression tester & ran the compression test.
cyl 1=320psi, cyl 2=325psi, cyl 3=325psi, cyl 4=350psi.
She still is smoking badly but not as bad as yesterday. I don't know what to do next, anyone have some advice?
Look inside the intake. How much oil is in there? The only thing I can think of now is oil vapour collecting in the intake and being drawn in with the fresh air.
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