<VV> New Oil Leak

Daniel Monasterio dmonasterio at hotmail.com
Sun Jun 17 17:25:11 EDT 2012


Take out right lower shroud and inspect:
1.- Oil pressure switch if it is on the original place for 62 (RH crankcase half).2.- Push rod tube seals, mostly those ones close to head.
Daniel Monasterio

> From: ronh at owt.com
> To: virtualvairs at corvair.org
> Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2012 14:08:43 -0700
> Subject: <VV> New Oil Leak
> 
> A new leak has sprung on my '62 wagon and just before I was going to put it 
> in our Cool Desert Nights weekend show!  Anyway, I haven't worked on it yet 
> but am looking for some advice on where to start.
> It appears do be on the right side with a relatively rapid drip coming from 
> various places on the right lower shroud.  The oil filter area on the left 
> is dry.  It's also dry on top around the right carburetor and everywhere 
> else on top.  Does anyone have any ideas on what the more likely suspects 
> are and I fervently hope that one of them isn't the forward crank seal.  So 
> what's left, pushrods and ?  Any ideas?
> Thanks,
> RonH 
> 
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