Egil,
Is it possible that you have a pressure build up in the engine.
My car was dumping a lot of oil out the pores but stopped to almost nothing
when I removed a plug in the breather system used to bypass the PCV valve.
Brian Sanborn
62 TR4 CT16260L - Groton, MA
sanborn@net1plus.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Reed Mideke <rmideke@interbase.com>
To: Egil Kvaleberg <egil@kvaleberg.no>
Cc: triumphs@autox.team.net <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Date: Monday, November 23, 1998 12:06 PM
Subject: Oil leak [was Re: Massey Ferguson]
>
>Egil Kvaleberg wrote:
>>
>[...]
>>
>> Speaking of which: My engine has developed an oil leak of a certain
>> severity - enough to make me have to top up the oil more often than
usual.
>> I've trained in vain to find the source. It seems it only happens at
>> speed: there is certainly not a drop of oil even after 15 minutes at
idle.
>>
>I've had this problem with an oil pressure switch. The sender for a
>gauge could probably have a similar problem.
>
>--
>Reed Mideke rmideke@interbase.com
>
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