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Subject:Breather tower & oil consumption
From:Malcolm Stebbins
Date:Tue, 5 Aug 2003 10:05:46 -0700

I have search the archives and I have learned a bit.

My (91 syncro) van is eating oil - a lot - down to the
minimum level - then stops.  If I fill the oil to the
upper level of the stick, it will eat the oil in 500
kilometers.  When the oil gets to the minimum level,
it will stop eating the oil and just stay there.

I know it is comming from the oil breather tower as I
have a carb on the van and I can take of the air
filter (on top of the carb) and I can see the oil
puddled in and around the carb top plate.  The oil
breather tower is NEW!

At one point I took off the tube from the oil breather
tower and drove the van, the oil started dripping
BADLY from the oil filler tube.

The archvies suggest that there is blow-by in the
cylinders.  I have had the compression checked and it
is around 145 to 150 psi all around.

Anyother ideas????      Malcolm

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