<VV> Blowby sanity check

[J R Read_HML]

You might be looking at a blowbotomy.

AKA - top end.  Well, rings anyway.

Have you done a compression check?

Later, JR

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bryan Blackwell" <bryan at skiblack.com>
To: "Virtual Vairs" <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Friday, September 08, 2006 10:20 PM
Subject: <VV> Blowby sanity check


> Hi folks,
>
> Well, you may recall I put a "basement fresh" 110 in the '66 which I had 
> bought as a mostly assembled hadn't been run in 10 years original.  Put 
> O-rings in it and cleaned it up.  Problem is it smokes, and Rislone in the 
> crankcase, Marvel Mystery Oil in the cylinders, and finally CRC engine 
> flush has not slowed it down one bit.
>
> Symptom is smoke out the vent tube at idle, blue in color, goes to a 
> strong blue smokestack (I mean a *LOT*, makes your eyes water) when I rev 
> it and I get oil out the dipstick tube.  Other than that it runs pretty 
> well - and no smoke out the tailpipe.  Before I make any further plans, is 
> there any cause for this besides stuck/broken rings?
> --
> Bryan Blackwell bryan at skiblack.com
> http://autoxer.skiblack.com/
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