At 10:19 PM 5/14/2004, Michael Brenner wrote: ><snip> >ceremonial draining of the oil. While performing the initial task, an >interesting thing happened. While the motor was only started a handful of >times and probably less that 5 miles on the reassembled engine, instead of >the oil being relatively clean, what drained out instead was a whole lot of >gasoline. I mean a lot. Maybe about 2 gallons. Something is pumping gasoline >at a high rate into the crankcase somehow. Does anyone in the digital stream >have an idea's? ------- Fuel pressure regulator with a blown diaghram, or maybe a REALLY leaky injrector. Steve EJ22 -> '86 Westy "Escape Pod"
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