<VV> Excessive blowby

[Bryan Blackwell]

This is pretty close to what I have.  Seems like an outside chance it 
could be a broken piston, but basically I wanted to be sure that the 
problem is limited to pistons/rings/barrels.  Thanks!

--Bryan

On Sep 9, 2006, at 5:18 PM, Clark Hartzel wrote:

> My latest Corvair, a 1965 Monza 4-door had excessive blowby out of the
> breather tube into the air cleaner.  Looked like "Old Faithful" even at
> idle.  No smoke out of the tailpipe.  I ran a compression test and 
> found all
> were very good except #3.  Pulled the cylinder head and #3 jug with 
> engine
> still in the car and found broken rings.  Piston looked good.  Cylinder
> looked good.  Put new rings on piston and Magic!  No more blowby!  
> I've put
> about 2000 miles on it including the national convention and it is 
> running
> fine with minimal blowby.  It was amazing what one cylinder could leak 
> into
> the crankcase and up the vent tube.
> Clark Hartzel