bobmga62
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My wife and I took the spitfire out for the first time in quite a while... we did about 20 miles, but never really any speeds higher thant 35 to 40 mphj..
Near our return the car smelled quite gassey, and when I got home, Innoticed the clear breather tube that runs from the valve cover to catch tank was foaming anexpelling milky looking water. There was about an inch of milky water on the bottom of the coke can sized catch tank.
when I pulled the vale cover cover, there was the same layer of milky foam..
pulling the dipstick, there was no foam or bubbling or trace of water on the stick (although, I do belive, the crank may be overfilled..)
checking the raciator, nicely topped off and no foam and a good clear green of antifreeze...no tell tale white exhaust and the temps were fine.
pulled the plugs as well, and they looked fine, and no apparent weeping around head gasket..
Checked other forums, and got answers like too much moisture in the air, to overfilling the crank...
I did have to replace the head gasket 500 miles ago due to a little weeping in the rear of it, , but all still seems fine.
any suggestion from this group?...maybe I just need to get the car on the highway and do an iitalian tune up.. just let the thing whine a bit?
thank so much...
Near our return the car smelled quite gassey, and when I got home, Innoticed the clear breather tube that runs from the valve cover to catch tank was foaming anexpelling milky looking water. There was about an inch of milky water on the bottom of the coke can sized catch tank.
when I pulled the vale cover cover, there was the same layer of milky foam..
pulling the dipstick, there was no foam or bubbling or trace of water on the stick (although, I do belive, the crank may be overfilled..)
checking the raciator, nicely topped off and no foam and a good clear green of antifreeze...no tell tale white exhaust and the temps were fine.
pulled the plugs as well, and they looked fine, and no apparent weeping around head gasket..
Checked other forums, and got answers like too much moisture in the air, to overfilling the crank...
I did have to replace the head gasket 500 miles ago due to a little weeping in the rear of it, , but all still seems fine.
any suggestion from this group?...maybe I just need to get the car on the highway and do an iitalian tune up.. just let the thing whine a bit?
thank so much...