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oil leaking like crazy from the front timing cover felt seal 140-160

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posted by  JohnMc on  Fri Sep 3 02:07 CST 2010
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240's do this *all the time*, because of the ridiculous little salt shaker flame arrester in the breather tube. 140's are probably a lot less prone.

But just to verify, your hose doesn't go from the block mounted breather fitting (next to the distributor) to the oil cap does it?

The configuration varied over the year, but in general one of the hoses shuold lead to a fitting on the intake manifold (where it gets a little vacuum mostly at idle) and the other should go to a fitting on the air cleaner.

It's a sort of two-way system. At idle, the mild vacuum on the intake manifold sucks a little bit of air through the system, pulling clean air in from the air cleaner. With the throttle wide open, there's more than enough blow-by to overwhelm that small fitting ont he intake manifold (and there's less vacuum to pull through it as well) so the flow reverses and it blows out into the air cleaner, where the engine sucks it in again.
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'63 PV544 rat rod, '93 Classic #1141 245 (now w/16V turbo)






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