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

[william.neff.powell at comcast.net]

Good point....

On the same note, what if the head is warped? Could cause apparently healthy gasket to leak....


 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: 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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