[AT] Slight Oil Leak

[LeRoy Price III]

It wasn't until I torqued down the manifold bolts for the leak to start in 
the area of the head to block seal.  It was alright until then.  The other 
thing is that this was OK last year when I got it back from the rebuild.

Why does this give me a bad feeling and I wanted to get rid of the darn 
thing.  I gotta get out of this hobby.


>All of the oil that is in the heads of an Allis B engine are pumped up 
>there
>externally and into a port on the distributor side of the engine.  From
>there the oil flows though a channel in the head casting and up through one
>of the rocker arm studs that is hollow.  It then runs down the inside of 
>the
>rocker arm tube, over the valve train and then it drains back through holes
>in the head back to the inside of the block.  There are no oil passages in
>the head on the manifold side.
>
>You need to pull the valve cover, check for leaks on the valve cover 
>gasket,
>check to see that the oil is flowing back through the head into the block
>without ponding up in the top of the head and re-torque the head.  If you
>don't find the problem in one of those places then you have a head gasket
>problem, a warped head or some problem with the top of the block.  There is
>no way that I can think of for oil to come out through the manifold stud
>holes.  If enough oil is getting by the oil rings to get into the manifold
>and flow out around the manifold gasket then you should be getting oil
>blowing out of the exhaust pipe.
>
>Charlie

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