[DeTomaso] Oil Smoke From Breathers

[John Bentley]

Dan,

Unless you have a bad pick-up, you can certainly run the engine on 4 quarts of oil.  Even if you have a 10-qt pan, you can run on less since the pick-up is in the bottom of the pan.  I would just try draining a couple quarts of oil out (if you know you have 10 in there) and see if it still does it.

Since the shop messed with the dipstick, you should look into this more.  When you change the oil, how many quarts do you put in?  If its more than 8, this could be it.

JB



--- On Thu, 5/19/11, Dan Courtney <dfcex at pacbell.net> wrote:

From: Dan Courtney <dfcex at pacbell.net>
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Oil Smoke From Breathers
To: gndplne at yahoo.com, dfcex at excaliburre.com, "Pantdino" <pantdino at aol.com>
Cc: detomaso at realbig.com
Date: Thursday, May 19, 2011, 2:05 PM



 
 


 
I was hoping that too. Because I have this so 
called "10 quart" oil pan, and the dip stick has never seemed to be correct, I 
had the engine builder measure and mark the dip stick before final 
assembly.
I even drained out another quart, until the 
valvetrain got noisy.
 
Dan
 
Dan Courtney
22 Years of Excellent 
Representation
Excalibur Commercial Real Estate Services
La Jolla, 
CA
(858) 551-5455 P
(858) 551-5456 F




From: Pantdino 
Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2011 1:53 PM
To: gndplne at yahoo.com ; dan at excaliburre.com ; dfcex at excaliburre.com 
Cc: detomaso at realbig.com 
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Oil Smoke From Breathers


Interesting idea--  if the crankshaft is hitting the oil and making an 
oil hurricane in there it would come out the breathers.
 
Jim





-----Original 
Message-----
From: John Bentley <gndplne at yahoo.com>
To: Dan F. Courtney 
<dan at excaliburre.com>; Dan 
Courtney <dfcex at excaliburre.com>
Cc: detomaso at realbig.com
Sent: Thu, May 
19, 2011 1:37 pm
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Oil Smoke From Breathers


Dan,

Any chance you have too much oil in it? 

JB


--- On Thu, 5/19/11, Dan Courtney <dfcex at pacbell.net> wrote:

From: Dan Courtney <dfcex at pacbell.net>
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Oil Smoke From Breathers
To: "Dan F. Courtney" <dan at excaliburre.com>, dfcex at excaliburre.com, 
JDeRyke at aol.com, "Pantdino" <pantdino at aol.com>
Cc: detomaso at realbig.com
Date: Thursday, May 19, 2011, 1:31 PM


Dan Courtney
22 Years of Excellent Representation
Excalibur Commercial Real Estate Services
La Jolla, CA
(858) 551-5455 P
(858) 551-5456 F


From: Dan F. Courtney 
Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2011 2:32 AM
To: dfcex at excaliburre.com ; JDeRyke at aol.com ; Pantdino 
Cc: detomaso at realbig.com 
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Oil Smoke From Breathers


The engine is a somewhat beefed up street motor built by the top (at least most 
expensive) engine shop in San Diego.
I'll take it to one of his competitors and see what they say.

Dan


From: Pantdino 
Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2011 8:37 AM
To: dfcex at excaliburre.com ; JDeRyke at aol.com 
Cc: detomaso at realbig.com 
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Oil Smoke From Breathers


Dan, 
Unless you are running super thin oil like 0W-30 replacing the synthetic oil 
with non-synthetic would be a total waste of time.  
What weight are you running?

Was this engine professionally built, or did you do it yourself?
IIRC it is professionally built street motor and the builder said this is 
normal.
If so, it is nonsense.  
Take the car to a respected mechanic in your area and ask him if it is 
"normal".  
I suppose if the engine is a full race motor with minimal oil control rings it 
would have more blowby than a street motor, but what you described is way out of 
line for a street motor.

If what I have written is true the builder is just failing to admit he messed up 
and stand behind his work

Jim





-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Courtney <dfcex at pacbell.net>
To: JDeRyke at aol.com
Cc: detomaso at realbig.com
Sent: Wed, May 18, 2011 4:05 am
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Oil Smoke From Breathers


Hi Jack,

I eliminated the PCV valve as a cause, next up I'll replace the Mobil 1 with non 

synthetic oil. The engine and cam has about 2,500 miles now, can it make do 
without the ZBBT?
If I still have this issue, how does one test for valve guide or valve stem 
seals (with the engine together)?

Thanks,
Dan

Dan Courtney
22 Years of Excellent Representation
Excalibur Commercial Real Estate Services
La Jolla, CA
(858) 551-5455 P
(858) 551-5456 F


From: JDeRyke at aol.com 
Sent: Monday, April 25, 2011 12:19 PM
To: dfcex at pacbell.net ; detomaso at realbig.com 
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Oil Smoke From Breathers



In a message dated 4/24/11 8:27:35 PM, dfcex at pacbell.net writes:



  If the problem is valve guides, or valve stem seals, would that show in a 
leak-down test?



No. 
Good luck, Dan- J Deryke 
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