[Mini] Oil spitting

[Joe Barbera]

I ran a hose to an old Castrol oil can that is held to the bulk head with
Velcro. Problem solved and it looks cool.

Joe

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On Apr 26, 2013, at 1:09 PM, belvenfish at yahoo.co.uk wrote:

> Hi Anne,
>
> I don't think you ought to block the crankcase breather, you have
> obviously got too much crankcase pressure, so fit a hose into an open tin
to
> get the fumes out, alternatively into the inlet manifold if you can or
> similar. I don't remember what you said about the state of the engine,
could
> be worn piston rings.
>
> HTH
>
> Dr. Gernot Vonhoegen
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> [Mini] Oil spitting
>
>
> After the fuel issues was sorted sorted and the clutch
> keeps working fine
> with the washer installed, it was time for the Van to think
> of another
> symptom to come up with.
>
> First it tried to impress me with a
> fairly lack of improvement in bhp or
> torque (+ 4 and + 10 after fitting the
> charger), but as that did not work,
> it started to throw out the engine oil.
> Although initially not directly a problem, I had a look at where all that
> oil
> was coming from.
> From the pattern it looked like it was being pushed out of
> the dipstick
> hole. The stick was not really sticking anymore; just lying in
> there.
>
> After I 'solved' this by plugging the dipstick hole, the oil found
> other
> ways to get out of the block.
> Somewhere behind the distributor and also
> a bit past the oilfiller cap.
> That did become a problem, and not just because
> it really DOES need oil,
> but also because it was now spitting it over the hot
> parts of the engine,
> resulting in nasty blue smoke getting into the cabin.
>
> Or
> at least I think that is what that smoke was. At least it is very clear
> it's
> spitting out the oil in places it shoudln't.
>
> Pictures as always can be found
> here;
> http://goo.gl/9400P
>
> Assuming the remaing crankcase breather (on the
> clutch side) was blocked I
> took it off the carb nd checked it. Unforunately
> (would have been an easy
> fix most likely) there is no blockage on either the
> engine nor carb side.
>
> Any hints as to what can be done to figure out where
> the problem is?
>
> Anne.
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