Oil shooting everywhere.
Oil shooting everywhere.
I tried starting my car. It was hard starting but did. It was smoking profusely and wouldn’t idle. I looked at the motor and oil had shot everywhere. It was being sprayed out of the hoses on the valve cover into the carb. I’m stumped. What could cause this?
Re: Oil shooting everywhere.
Ellisdee,
It sounds like loss of compression, allowing blow by to pressurize the top of the head, etc. Hard starting could point to poor compression as well.
Chris
It sounds like loss of compression, allowing blow by to pressurize the top of the head, etc. Hard starting could point to poor compression as well.
Chris
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Re: Oil shooting everywhere.
Nope. Just checked the compression 160 plus per cylinder. I removed the hoses and cleaned everything up. I pulled the PCV valve and plugged the hose to the carb. It started up and ran fine. I drove it 250 miles with no problem. I’m stumped.
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Re: Oil shooting everywhere.
over filled? bad PCV valve?
usually with worn rings or damaged/worn cylinder walls it allows blow by to pressurize the crank case, allow oil to get blown out of the PVC line into the air filter. though the compression should show at very low (110-130 psi ranger, or lower).
there might be something else allowing oil to get pumped into the air filter housing, but I can not think of what else could cause it.
good luck
usually with worn rings or damaged/worn cylinder walls it allows blow by to pressurize the crank case, allow oil to get blown out of the PVC line into the air filter. though the compression should show at very low (110-130 psi ranger, or lower).
there might be something else allowing oil to get pumped into the air filter housing, but I can not think of what else could cause it.
good luck
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Re: Oil shooting everywhere.
I’m guessing a bad pcv valve. I’ll replace it and see if it runs with the new one. I’ve never seen anything like this happen.
Re: Oil shooting everywhere.
Elisdee,
Is it starting better now as well?
Chris
Is it starting better now as well?
Chris
Psalm 37:4 "Delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart"
In remembrance of my friend ARCHINSTL:
T4WD augury?
"Oh, do not ask, 'What is it?' Let us go and make our visit."
T.S. Eliot - "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
"Now and then we had a hope that, if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates."
Mark Twain
In remembrance of my friend ARCHINSTL:
T4WD augury?
"Oh, do not ask, 'What is it?' Let us go and make our visit."
T.S. Eliot - "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
"Now and then we had a hope that, if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates."
Mark Twain