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Old 04-11-2006, 09:35 AM
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What Eljaro said...

I went through this with the center oiler in the batmobile, it's pretty unlikely that any sort of condensation / humitidy would cause the change in oil texture. You sould change the oil and pull the valve covers, you will likely find there is a good deal of moisture collected in the valve cover roof.

It could be lots of things. In my case fortunately it was the water passages at the heads / intake manifold connection leaking. It turned into a little bigger project than expected when I found a huge mismatch between the standard Edelbrock F-427 and the extensively ported 427 Sideoiler heads. If it isn't obvious things get a little more involved, chasing cracks, replacing head gaskets, etc.

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