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Fri, 03 June 2011 11:46  |
Donovan-formerly Jase386
Messages: 139
Registered: January 2009
Location: Greenville SC
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Getting ready last night for a drive to myrtle beach this morning. On my trip to Bean Station, and my HOT drive to Zebs i kept smelling oil burning, as if it were dropping on something hot. My first notion was that the new valve cover gaskets hadnt seated correctly, so on Wednesday i snugged the bolts a little more and cleaned around both valve covers and down the road we went for a test... No oil from valve covers, but boy was the burning smell strong. Next assumption was maybe the oil pan bolts have worked loose, that sometimes happens on everything. 10:30 thursday night.. trip to start at 3am friday. i crawl under the GMC to snug up the oil pan bolts, none will turn.. as im following the volumn of oil to find where in hell its coming from what do i see protruding down?? My friggin oil dip stick! The shoulder on the flat portion of the dipstick had pulled the dipstick tube out of the block!. The dipstick driving the GMC kept adding oil because there was just a dab on the end of the stick where it was hitting the exterior of the oil pan.. Cleaned it up. pushed it back in the hole, new oil resistent rtv and a final shove to seat everything. filed the shoulders off the dip stick, cleaned the bulk of the oil off the hot parts of the engine and exhaust and still on the road by 330. no oil smell in 5 hours of driving.....
a PO had replaced my dipstick tube with a length of copper tubing, and the combination of the shoulder on the flat of the dipstick, and the red rtv they used to seal it being saturated with oil caused a very interesting problem .
plus lost another hubcap somewhere on i-20 after i left the Camden SC rest area. I have an idea where. there is a bridge that sits about 4 inches above the road. im pretty sure thats the culprit, plus the tire shop put weights on the outside of my wheels. the fronts have been corrected, going to correct the rears next week..
Donovan, Greenville SC
1975 Eleganza II
81,500 miles
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