oil leaking on headers and burning?

LilBerx · Feb 14, 2012

Hey Stangnet, sorry for posting so much, but when I get a problem, I like to get the answer, the right answer.

So I am leaking oil somewhere on the drivers side of my bay... When i get into it at high rpms, and shift to the next gear, i seem to get a cloud of smoke behind me, oil burning smoke. There is no smoke whatsoever coming out of the exhaust.

Why is this doing it? i replaced the valve cover gaskets, changed the PCV valve, grommet, and filter. cleaned the PCV hose to the intake.

Today someone said that it could be my oil dipstick, that if it was bent the wrong way.

srtthis · Feb 15, 2012

hose everything down with brake clean and see where its leaking from..

Rick 91GT · Feb 15, 2012

Is it pushing the dipstick out of the tube under high rpm, this could mean excessive crank case pressure. Otherwise check the valve cover, they tend to loosen up overtime

No.11 · Feb 15, 2012

make sure the throttle body to oil filler neck hose is connected. had that problem and my dipstick was indeed being pushed out as Rick suggests, and oil was spraying out and causing all kinda of smoke and oily smell.

srtthis · Feb 15, 2012

are you sure its hitting the headers and not just the exhaust?

i had my rear intake gasket when i had the stock intake leak and it blew oil everywhere

LilBerx · Feb 15, 2012

It's hitting headers... I just replaced the intake gaskets. And I just put blue fel pro rubber valve cover gaskets on.

LilBerx · Feb 15, 2012

It's hitting headers for sure... I'm pretty sure it's coming out of the dipstick. The car is an 86 so it has flat topped pistons with no pressure relief. Now what to do to get it to stop?

srtthis · Feb 16, 2012

no pressure relief? as in no breather? no PCV? nothing???

CarMichael Angelo · Feb 16, 2012

I'm thinkin' he meant "no valve reliefs." (for whatever reason)
he already said he changed the PCV valve, grommet, and filter.

LilBerx · Feb 16, 2012

srtthis said:
no pressure relief? as in no breather? no PCV? nothing???

It has a brand new pcv valve on it.... The breather at the top of the pcv valve is capped off.

srtthis · Feb 16, 2012

so your not running a line from the PCV to the intake?

LilBerx · Feb 16, 2012

srtthis said:
so your not running a line from the PCV to the intake?

No, I am running a line from the pcv valve,
To underneath the front of my intake.

Gearbanger 101 · Feb 16, 2012

LilBerx said:
It's hitting headers... I just replaced the intake gaskets. And I just put blue fel pro rubber valve cover gaskets on.

Which valve covers are you using? I had the old "Powered by Ford" ones from a mid-80's Mustang on my Ranger back in the day. Nice covers, but really fragile. Overtighten those gaskets and you'll break them. Couldn't find my leak until one day I saw a fresh trickle of oil coming out from around the valve cover bolt. Sure enough...cracked one. I'd pull them off and check the covers themselves over for cracks. Those FelPro gaskets are reusable anyway.

srtthis · Feb 16, 2012

LilBerx said:
No, I am running a line from the pcv valve,
To underneath the front of my intake.

then whats capped off? the breather line from the filler neck to the throttle body?

LilBerx · Feb 16, 2012

I believe it's coming out of the dipstick.

LilBerx · Feb 16, 2012

On the PCV valve there is two stems, one is a breather, and the other is to the intake. A guy I talked to capped of the breather with the cap that came with it because he said all it was, was a vaccuum leak.

srtthis · Feb 16, 2012

ahhh ok... thats i pulled that off mine and just ran the rubber tube to the metal body of it. those plastic parts go to another application i believe

LilBerx · Feb 16, 2012

Have a picture?

srtthis · Feb 16, 2012

nah... i just pulled the plastic crap off and ran it like a stock one.

LilBerx · Feb 16, 2012

http://www.oreillyauto.com/site/c/d...Search_pcv+valve_1133840_-1&keyword=pcv valve
This is the PCV valve that i have. i capped it off with the cap that is in the middle.

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