LRO: Oil in carb

From: Kirk Hillman (kdhillma@telusplanet.net)
Date: Sun May 06 2001 - 20:02:29 EDT

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    Last post, I hope. You know that little dome shaped thingy on top of the valve cover that vents excess pressure? I don't remember where exactly the hose was routed to on the old carb, but on the new one I was supposed to route it into a fitting inside the air filter. There is oil getting into the inside of my air filter. I don't like that. :-(
        Also, something that may be related is that the whole engine seems to have gotten covered with oil. It wasn't sprayed there by the fan, it seems to have run down from the valve cover. I used RTV to seal the cover to the head so it isn't coming from there. It seems from the oil evidence to have come from the base of that dome shaped thing and the valve cover bolt holes. So my question is why does this happen? There shouldn't be that much pressure in there should there? HELP, PLEASE!

    Kirk



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