carpecursusII
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Ok, last year I rebuilt my engine and things were going pretty well over all. Two months ago and about 1400 miles into the new engine I noticed that I was still burning a significant amount of oil and could see smoke on acceleration. I suspected either leaking valves or a ring issue. I tore the motor back down and had the head checked, I had a noticeable amount of build up on my valves especially considering they only had 1400 miles on them. I was able to conclude that the PCV valve was allowing oil through and I was burning it all.
Now I am 300 miles into the second attempt at this, I made a change to the valve cover cap after realizing that I was using a cap with a vent on a system that should be sealed. I switched to a sealed cap but I still seemed to be burning oil.
This is the kicker: I just took the valve cover cap off with the engine running and could feel the air pressure coming out of the opening, it felt like my hand was infront of the exhaust pipe just not quite as strong. Should I have this much pressure being built up even at idle or is something wrong?????
Now I am 300 miles into the second attempt at this, I made a change to the valve cover cap after realizing that I was using a cap with a vent on a system that should be sealed. I switched to a sealed cap but I still seemed to be burning oil.
This is the kicker: I just took the valve cover cap off with the engine running and could feel the air pressure coming out of the opening, it felt like my hand was infront of the exhaust pipe just not quite as strong. Should I have this much pressure being built up even at idle or is something wrong?????