rchrd989 Posted April 22, 2007 Share Posted April 22, 2007 So recently I finished my engine ground up build and got it in the car. everythings hooked up and I got it running. while i was in the process of adjusting timing, air fule mixutre and syncronizing the carbs i noticed liquid on my exaust manifold burning off, at first i thought it was gas dripping from somehwere and that wasnt the case, i turned off the Z and checked around, there was oil underneath my balance tube, on my exaust manifold, backside of my individule air filters and on the engine bay wall on the driver side, i noticed that while reving these droplets appeared, so i took the tops off my carbs and pulled the slides out, there is oil getting into my mixture from the oil in my slides! i assumed that maybe i had to much in there, so i empteid them out and put new oil in there, i filled them up to the second line and made sure each slide felt the same going up, i started my Z up again and it does it again! its almost as if the oil is comming from my balance tube, I thought about changing the oil with atf to make sure that the oil i have splattering is from the carbs, so insted of having oil everywhere id have red oil everywhere, what should I do? thanks guys Richard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rchrd989 Posted April 23, 2007 Author Share Posted April 23, 2007 I hopeing someone has had this same thing happen to them also... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
e_racer1999 Posted April 23, 2007 Share Posted April 23, 2007 never happened to me. but i know that if the levels are too high in your SUs the oil will come out. i would try with ATF simply for the reason you stated, then fill 'er back up with 10W30 once you figure out the problem! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rchrd989 Posted April 23, 2007 Author Share Posted April 23, 2007 yea i think im going to try that tomorrow since i have a day off, i guess im just happy thats its not making its way into the engine and burning it, but then again its getting splatterd everywhere! Ill post tomorrow after i try atf and write my results Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rchrd989 Posted April 25, 2007 Author Share Posted April 25, 2007 SO i found the problem, I empied my carbs dampening oil and i put ATF in my carbs. I started up my car and let it run for awhile and gave it some gas and yada yada. i noticed the oil collecting wasnt red! so i looked really hard everywhere and coudn't find anything. So i noticed these two threaded holes next to two studs on my cylinder head, i grabbed a small allen and enough said the allen went in the hole a few inches! the oil was coming form these holes. I looked at my spare heads and neither of them had these holes. http://a472.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/26/l_30cc7ed105c0ad8b8bf3477c4fed23ef.jpg" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
e_racer1999 Posted April 25, 2007 Share Posted April 25, 2007 looks like mounting holes for something? which head are you running? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rchrd989 Posted April 26, 2007 Author Share Posted April 26, 2007 Its an E88 that i bought from the guy on ebay that sells alot of remanufactured heads. I ended up taking a metric bolt, cutting the head off, cutting it in half and cut a groove for a screwdriver in each to plug the holes. actually worked pretty good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
e_racer1999 Posted April 26, 2007 Share Posted April 26, 2007 sweet! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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