Re: [AMC-list] WNATED: 66-72 V8 Intake baffle (the shallow one)

[russ hathaway <russh97309@xxxxxxxxx>]

I have been away for awhile and got back with you guys a month ago. Good to see AMC chatter.
I have a 360 in a Concorde that originally was a 304. It was running rough and I finally narrowed it down to the coil being bad. So that gave me a good excuse to go to an MSD ignition set-up.
It runs real nice and after setting up the distributor and hot-box I pulled out the dipstick to check things out. I found water in the oil!!
Not good. I thought it was the PVC grommet as when I opened the hood, water dripped at that area.
So I changed the oil and grommet, new PVC and fired it up. Ran real nice and I shut it down to check the oil, water in it again!
In 5 minutes running it gained 1/2 qt of oil.
So I did the following; plugs are dry, a little sooty. Dry compression says 135-145 with no noticable increase when checked wet.
It runs good, no misfires or anything.
Pulled of the rocker covers and foam everywhere, nothing noticable.
I started to pull the intake and the passenger center bolts were real loose, only finger tight. I noticed a lot of goop on every gasket surface like they were afraid of leaks.
I pulled the intake and the galley looks nice, but foamy.
So I cleaned everything, and will replace the intake gasket.
Anything else to check before I button it up. I pulled the lifters (yeah, keeping them in order) and everything looks new or low miles.
There is no sign of oil in the water.
I've only had the car 3 months or so........Russ


      
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