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Old 03-23-2012, 09:16 AM
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Default A Kind of Interesting Leak...

I just pulled my car out of her hermetically sealed bag that she has sat in for the past five months and, surprisingly, there were only a couple of innocuous drips on the papers that I had put under her. BUT, there was one really interesting leak, and I don't even know if I should call it a leak, and I should have taken a photo of it, but didn't. Anyway, the PCV hose that runs from the passenger size valve cover to the base of the carb was covered in very small droplets of oil, even on the "top of the arch" of the hose, so it couldn't have "run" up hill there. The oil had permeated through the hose itself and left all of the small drops on the outside of the hose. Obviously, that PCV hose was not "oil resistant." Just goes to show, oil will find its way out of FEs one way or another....
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