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Old 07-28-2014, 10:40 PM
Tomas7 Tomas7 is offline
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Originally Posted by kraakevik View Post
My '74 280 M110 had oil seeping through the seam between the cam tower and the cylinder head on the exhaust side.

I re-torqued the cylinder head bolts and carefully re-torqued all the smaller fasteners securing the cam tower to the head. That stopped the leak. I suspect the extreme heat from the reactor-style exhaust might have distorted the cam/head join enough over time to allow oil to seep out.

Best of luck



Tim Kraakevik
kraakevik@voyager.net

By the way, If by "reactor style" you mean the huge obnoxious catalytic; it's been long gone. I have the three into two into one exhaust with no cat.
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