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<DIV>If there is oil in the rear air filter then your rocker assy is worn out.
Warm up the engine, then remove the valve cover and start it up. Almost no oil
should come out the top of the rockers. Yours probably will squirt a lot of oil
out of the rear rockers. This will then be confined to the inside of the valve
cover. Then the breather will suck the oil into the rear filter and your new
engine will burn oil just like it did before the rebuild.</DIV>
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<DIV>We see this all the time and have rebuilt rocker assys in stock</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century'; COLOR: #000000">David
Nock<BR>healeydoc@sbcglobal.net<BR>209 948
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=mottman55@gmail.com
href="mailto:mottman55@gmail.com">Keith Mott</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, July 08, 2015 6:37 AM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=warthodson@aol.com
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<DIV><B>Cc:</B> <A title=healeys@autox.team.net
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<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Healeys] excess oil consumption</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr>Unless the rocker shaft is worn, oil should just barely seep out
around the rockers. It would be really hard to get to the vent tube. With
a worn rocker shaft, oil could squirt high enough to get into the tube, but I
think you'd see blue smoke.
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<DIV>If you're not seeing blue smoke, I think I'd be looking for leaks.</DIV>
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<DIV>Keith</DIV></DIV>
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<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 5:55 PM, <SPAN dir=ltr><<A
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<DIV class=MsoNormal>A friend ask me to post the following question about
excess oil consumption on this forum to see if anyone has any
suggestions.</DIV>
<DIV class=MsoNormal>I know the engine has been professionally rebuilt a few
years ago & the compression & leak down tests recently looked
"normal". No oil leaks. </DIV>
<DIV class=MsoNormal>Thanks,</DIV>
<DIV class=MsoNormal>Gary Hodson</DIV>
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<DIV class=MsoNormal>I had a brief conversation with my mechanic the other day
and in the next couple of weeks he will do a complete diagnosis on my Healey
to try to identify why I have had so much oil consumption. FYI, I just
emptied the 6<SUP>th</SUP> quart of oil into the engine yesterday – and that
is over 4,000 miles. It is better than before the recent ring job, but
nonetheless, is not acceptable to me.</DIV>
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<DIV class=MsoNormal>Mechanic thinks the oil loss might be due to combustion
of the oil from the back air cleaner that is plumbed with the valve
cover. He thinks the air cleaner I have on it now is somehow creating a
vacuum pulling oil from the valve cover and injecting it back into the piston
and is actually burning the oil off very efficiently. I still don’t have
any signs of leaks beneath the car nor any smoke from the tailpipe.
Quite possibly the current Cooper air cleaners are too small and are creating
this vacuum. The Cooper air cleaners replaced some other chrome air
cleaners the original owner had on the car – I don’t know if it was original
equipment.</DIV>
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<DIV class=MsoNormal>Will you do me a favor and see if anyone else had a
similar issue with oil consumption to identify a “solution” that worked for
them? Maybe there are other thoughts that we should ask my mechanic to
examine as well.</DIV>
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