i think i would have to agree with the condensation in your crankcase.
my car seems to get this condition early on in the spring time, when
i first start to take the car out for the year. i thought at first it
might have been the head gasket, but i never found any similar simtoms
on the dipstick. and my compression tests proved to be consistant
with a good gasket as well. i might suggest testing and searching as
much as you can without removing the head. then you will save
yourself a lot of work if it isn't the head gasket.
---Ian Southwell <IanSouthwell@ApexSystems.COM> wrote:
>
> I may be wrong about this but my old Dolomite used to do exactly
this even
> after a rebuild and I was told it was condensation? or blocked
breather
> tubes from the cover to the carbs. It ran fine for many-a-year with
this
> condition.
>
> Ian Southwell, Coventry
> GT6 Mk3 x 2
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: KEVIN EDDINS [SMTP:eddinsk@NRISO.NOLA.NAVY.MIL]
> > Sent: Friday, October 30, 1998 2:33 PM
> > To: Spitfires@Autox.Team.Net; dware@uk.ibm.com
> > Subject: Blown head gasket, or worse? -Reply
> >
> > I can't think of it being anything else other than the head gasket.
> > Unless
> > someones been putting water in your crank case.
> >
> > Kevin
> >
> > >>> David Ware <dware@uk.ibm.com> 10/30/98 08:10am >>>
> > I've noticed this twice now, a creamy substance in the rocker
cover,
> > mainly
> > around the oil cap.
> > Is this an indication of a blown head gasket?
> >
> > I've checked for other signs, I've run a compression test and they
all
> > seem
> > fine,
> > each within 10 percent. No loss of coolant (as far as I can tell)
and
> > there
> > isn't any air being
> > blown into the coolant expansion tank.
> >
> > Am I on the right track with the head gasket?
> >
> > David Ware
> >
> > 77 Spitfire 1500 (UK)
>
==
nikolai jaremka
72 spitfire mkIV
east aurora, new york
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