Re: 199 Sucking Oil

["Jim Blair" <carnuck@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

A: Redoing the head on a high mileage engine isn't the best thing to do. I 
agree on doing seals w/o taking the head off tho. Air pressure or soft rope 
down the plug hole.


From: farna@xxxxxxx
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Subject: 199 Sucking Oil
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 01:55:04 +0000
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What's left of the valve stem seals is likely in the oil pan, and been there 
a
while. Nothing to worry about, but it's going to pull some oil around the 
valve
guides with the seals gone, no way around it. So you can have the seals 
replaced
without removing the head, or pull the head and have thw whole ting rebuilt. 
If
time without the car isn't a big issue and you can remove and reinstall the 
head
yourself (not a big deal, except it's heavy, and you need access to a torque
wrench to put the head back on), I'd go ahead and get it rebuilt. The engine
will last longer that way, and if you decide to rebuild the rest of the 
engine
in a year or two (or need to) you can skip the head.

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Frank Swygert
Publisher, "American Independent