10-18-2014, 03:29 PM
One oil leak left to fix! - upper balance shaft rear seal. Trouble is, the intake manifold has to come out of the way. So, I set about moving it aside:
(lots of little bits to disconnect before you can move the intake, but not as bad as I feared. i didn't even have to drain entire cooling system, but i did disconnect a couple vacuum hoses and the T-branch coolant hose at the fill reservoir so that the throttle body and intake could be rotated up over the top of the engine together. cam cover is removed too, as my cams have been sent to Pete for sprocket repair)
More on those topics in other threads that I will post next, but the topics were intertwined with respect to the intake...
Anyway, where I didn't expect to find a bunch of oil was inside the intake manifold itself, namely in each of the 4 ports where it bolts to the head. How is this getting so oily!? I mentioned this in a thread about fuel injectors which I found to be very oily when I removed them for cleaning and flow testing recently.
My engine oil consumption is very little to none, and no more drippy leaks, except for the dribble from the upper BS seal, which will be dealt with soon. Couple pics show inside one of the intake ports and top of cylinder #2, and also where the intake connects to throttle body. Its oily enough in there that oil was slowly running out since the manifold is sitting inverted over the top of the engine.
(lots of little bits to disconnect before you can move the intake, but not as bad as I feared. i didn't even have to drain entire cooling system, but i did disconnect a couple vacuum hoses and the T-branch coolant hose at the fill reservoir so that the throttle body and intake could be rotated up over the top of the engine together. cam cover is removed too, as my cams have been sent to Pete for sprocket repair)
More on those topics in other threads that I will post next, but the topics were intertwined with respect to the intake...
Anyway, where I didn't expect to find a bunch of oil was inside the intake manifold itself, namely in each of the 4 ports where it bolts to the head. How is this getting so oily!? I mentioned this in a thread about fuel injectors which I found to be very oily when I removed them for cleaning and flow testing recently.
My engine oil consumption is very little to none, and no more drippy leaks, except for the dribble from the upper BS seal, which will be dealt with soon. Couple pics show inside one of the intake ports and top of cylinder #2, and also where the intake connects to throttle body. Its oily enough in there that oil was slowly running out since the manifold is sitting inverted over the top of the engine.
(This post was last modified: 10-18-2014, 03:33 PM by MLB.)
