ever since I bought the poncho, I was thinking there was this annoying ass blowby problem. Not bad blow by, but just enough to notice. I even tried convertin git pcv the other day to solve it. and yesterday I noticed that one of my valve covers was leaking a pretty good little bit, and the head an exhaust had a good coat of oil on them. so i crammed the corner of the gasket full of gasket sealer where it was ate up at, and I drove it to work and back today without the least bit of smoke/blow-by. So all that was going on was an a leaky valve covers gasket, leaking oil onto the manifold, which was burning, and the smoke was getting sucked into the exhaust leak where the doughnut should be, and exiting though another exhaust leak where the roaddraft tube is! (yeah I know i need exhaust work) I got new valve cover gaskets today, and I'm happy I can drive it without worrying about that shit now, but I sure feel retarded....
sometimes it's the simple things that can humble the best among us! just think of it as a learning experience. now it won't happen to you again. jerry
ya know....i pulled the motor in my 88 chev 4x to replace the rear seal cause it was leaking put it back together...still leaked cleaned everything again it was an o-rig to the oil filter adaptor....common problem.... rear seal...$25 ... about 1 day of greasy no fun o-ring... $0.50 ....3 minutes humbeling experience ...priceless now that was dumb...
That's where one of those cheap black light dye kits pay for themselves. Pour some in, a 10 min road test, shine the black light on it and you can see exactly where it's coming from even if it hasn't seen a bath in 30 years.
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