I also had one of these oil feed lines on my TR6. It kept causing the #6
spark plug to foul and I also got "The Puff" that Richard describes below.
My engine has 119,000 miles on it so maybe that's a contributing factor, but
this has been my personal experience with these devices. I had to take it off.
Jim Sudduth
'74 TR6 CF20076U
jims@autodesk.com
Berkeley, CA USA
At 12:23 PM 11/27/96 -0600, you wrote:
>
>Charles wrote:
> "Anyone tried one of these special add-ons that route oil directly up
> to the valve cover via external tubing. I don't recall the details,
> but I think I saw one of these in a Moss or other catalogue. All
> opinions welcome!"
>
>Charles,
> I have been running one of those external oil feed from TRF for about 3
>years. I suppose it does get more oil up there as my car and everybody elses
>I see with them installed seem to smoke after the install. It must hve
>something to do with the lack of a valve seal and all that oil now showing
>up where it didn't an any quantity before. It is mostly noticed when
>restarting after a good run on the engine and everything is still hot. Like
>when on a road trip and everyone stops for gas.
> I have only replaced a scored rocker arm shaft once and that was back in
>1975. So I have put quite a few miles on the car without the feed line and
>not had any problems. Truthfully I just installed it cause it looked cool;-).
>
>Regards,
> Richard Ceraldi Check it out!
>
> 71 GT6 MKIII KF166L http://www.exact.com/~gt6mk3/
> Austin, TX e-mail erc004@email.mot.com
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