<VV> Gas in Oil

[Jim Houston]

According to what I've heard, the fuel pump has failed internally and is 
pumping fuel into the case...

Jim Houston
'65 Monza Coupe

Nick Gier wrote:

>Hi everyone,
>	I've ran into a problem with my daily driver '65 Monza, it has a 110
>and a PG BTW. For the last couple of days my car has been leaving soot on
>the driveway from the exhaust. Over the weekend, I was driving home from a
>friend's house and I noticed the car was running a little rough. Upon
>arriving at home, I started smelling smoke. I shut the engine off and looked
>in the engine compartment. The dipstick had been leaking a lot of oil. I
>noticed the oil was a lot thinner than it should have been and it smelled
>like gas. I checked the oil level and it was way past full. So I drained the
>oil and found that there was actually gas in the oil (a lot). I've had this
>problem before on another engine with a blown power valve on a Holley. My
>question to all of you is what would be causing all of this gas to get into
>the oil. Could it be one of the carbs dumping a bunch of gas into the
>engine? If so, what's the problem with the carb? Thanks in advance for any
>help. 
>								Nick Gier
>								65 Monza
>110/PG
>								63 Spyder
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