[DeTomaso] Oil pan gasket recommendation?

[MikeLDrew at aol.com]

In a message dated 10/1/08 10 59 46, larry at ohiotimecorp.com writes:


> You may want to check you venting / PCV system. At high RPM the blow-by is
> at its highest. I have seen crank cases pressurized and blow oil out a
> normally good seal. 
> 
>>>An excellent idea, one that we discussed on Saturday.   Although the 
various fittings *around* the PCV valve system are new (i.e. the adapter connecting 
it to the valve cover, the fitting on the air cleaner for the vent hose on 
the other side etc.), the PCV itself is ancient.   It certainly would be a good 
idea to change it, just for the heck of it.

>If your heads are full of oil the venting system may not
> be working to well.
> 
>>>True enough, but if that were the case, I would expect to suck oil through 
the PCV and into the carb, and get huge clouds of smoke out the back, 
something that hasn't happened yet.

I am getting high-rpm oil pressure drop on the gauge, but several people have 
opined that it's probably a bad sender, especially since it *instantly* 
corrects itself the moment I let off the gas; if it were a genuine oil supply 
problem I'd expect a lag of at least a second or two.   I'm going to change the 
sender (I actually already changed it; removed a perfectly good one and replaced 
it with one that might not be good, so I'll just put the old one back in) and 
then see if the indication remains.   If so, I'm sucking my pan dry.   If not, 
that's one less thing to worry about. :>)

Mike
> 


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