[AT] stuck good on a WD 45 engine question!

[tomehrkam at houston.rr.com]

How can you be sure the head gasket is OK.

I had a Chevy 454 that started burning oil after an intake manifold job.
We could not find anything wrong with the gaskets but changing them
solved the problem. 

Gaskets looked perfect. They were installed correctly and the
compression marks from the manifolds looked correct. We just had a
massive vacuum leak somewhere. It was fuel injection and the engine ran
fine it just burnt oil.

----- Original Message -----
From: John Wilkens <jwilkens at eoni.com>
Date: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 7:53 am
Subject: Re: [AT] stuck good on a WD 45 engine question!
To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>

> Head gasket is OK.   John
> 
> 
> 
> At 03:16 PM 12/11/2006, you wrote:
> >Maybe the source of the head gasket gave you the wrong gasket?
> >----- Original Message ----- From: "John Wilkens" <jwilkens at eoni.com>
> >To: <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> >Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 4:55 PM
> >Subject: [AT] stuck good on a WD 45 engine question!
> >
> >
> >>My neighbor an I are super expert tractor mechanics :)  but we 
> are 
> >>stumped and need ATIS help!    Got a WD 45 with even compression 
> at 
> >>119 lbs and good oil rings....no blowby problem and a fresh valve 
> >>job (superior quality of course), and a good tight head 
> >>gasket.    The problem with this tractor is that it blows enough 
> >>oil out the exhaust pipe to make your face greasy if your're 
> facing 
> >>a headwind.  It all seems to be coming from cylinders 3 and 
> >>4...which are fouling plugs.  We put valve stem seals on the 
> >>exhaust valves, but still it blows oil and smoke out the exhaust 
> >>pipe.  It seems to me that the only place for engine oil to get 
> >>into the exhaust system would be within the head 
> >>somewhere.  Question is....Where or How?   We are just now going 
> >>out to plug the oil feed pipe to the head and run it awhile 
> without 
> >>oil feed to the rocker arm to see if the smoking problem changes 
> >>any.....but even if it does....where would be the problem.....a 
> >>crack somewhere in the head?  It is blowing too much oil for a 
> >>hairline crack we maybe can't see.     ANY IDEAS WELCOME PLEASE!  
>   John W.
> >>                    In the wide-open spaces of NE Oregon
> >>
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