[DeTomaso] Oil Spray from valve cover breathers

[Will Kooiman]

But he said that it pushes the breathers out of the valve covers if he
pushes it hard.

Dennis - you¹ve got too much pressure in your crankcase.  The most likely
explanation is the rings are not seated.

All of the solutions are good solutions, but it¹s just going to smoke like
crazy once you start burning that oil spray.  You need to get the rings
seated.


On 4/25/15, 12:05 AM, "Ken Green via DeTomaso" <detomaso at poca.com> wrote:

>   I can remember in the mid 70s, people saying Clevelands pumped way too
>   much oil through the pushrods into the heads and the oil did not drain
>   fast enough.  I don't know how real that was.  I assume that was with
>   hydraulic lifters without oil flow restrictors?
>   Ken
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>   To: "dennis617 at aol.com" <dennis617 at aol.com>; Ken Green
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>   Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Oil Spray from valve cover breathers
>   Ken
>   I use these Petersen risers in which I installed baffles.  I had
>   aluminum nuts welded to the covers for installing the risers.  The
>   added heights gets them up above the oil pool.  I've tested them by
>   placing a moisture separator in the line between the riser and the
>   carb.  Very effective.
>   JT
>   On 4/24/2015 7:52 PM, [1]dennis617 at aol.com via DeTomaso wrote:
>
>   No PCV valve in this system.  Even if I did put one on I would still be
>   sucking up a lot of oil without any baffles.  It could, however, be
>   that the rings aren't seated yet since I only have about 150 miles on
>   it.  I was hoping to find a way to baffle the breathers.
>   Sent on the new Sprint Network
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>   From: "Ken Green" [2]<kenn_green at yahoo.com>
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>[5]"detomaso at poca.com"
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>   Subject: [DeTomaso] Oil Spray from valve cover breathers
>   Date: Fri, Apr 24, 2015 2:56 PM
>
>   Do you have a PVC valve?  I recall that PVC helps reduce or eliminate
>   pressure inside the engine, and if it's removed or blocked, you can get
>   oil spray from breathers.
>   ken
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>   From: Dennis Sanford via DeTomaso [7]<detomaso at poca.com>
>   To: [8]detomaso at poca.com
>   Sent: Friday, April 24, 2015 10:57 AM
>   Subject: [DeTomaso] Oil Spray from valve cover breathers
>     Hi Guys, does anyone have any ideas how to stop my engine from
>   blowing
>     oil out of the breathers on the valve covers.  The engine was just
>     rebuilt and now has aluminum valve covers without any baffles by the
>     openings for the breathers.  I'm getting a spray of oil out of the
>     breathers and sometimes they actual come off when i push it hard.
>     These are the twist-on type of breathers,
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