Re: completely bizarre white smoke incident

["Bill Collins" <photo@intrex.net>]

The diesels got the baffle first, because they could actually run off of the oil.  If this happened on a car with an automatic, there was no way to shut it off until it ran out of oil!

Bill

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: DNK006@aol.com
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 10:35:08 EDT

>Once I lookes behind me and I saw litterally a mile of military grade smoke.. 
>I thought it was a blown head gasket, but here is what happend:  During 
>higher than normal revs (4500 to 5500) on the older engines, oil builds up in 
>the head.  It doesn't drain fast enough, then wham, a little gets sucked into 
>the breather tube and it creates a syphon effect.  My air filter was dripping 
>oil...  It doesn't really hurt anything (but a cat if you have one).  I am 
>curous about what the cars behind me thought!  Any hey, it never hurn to 
>rust-proof your exhaust from the inside!
>There is a baffle, that diesels got first, and then all '85 and later 8v's.  
>This baffle splashes the oil down, so it doesn't have a chance to enter the 
>breather tube.
>Ben
>86 8v
>84 8v
>
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