<VV> Car puffing smoke up through the PCV tube

[J R Read_HML]

If you are getting gas into the crankcase you should be able to smell it on 
the dipstick and/or at the filler neck.  Also, it may seem as if the volume 
of oil is increasing when you read the dipstick.  If you see/smell these 
symptoms, change the pump and the oil (and filter of course) immediately.

The white stuff in the oil filler neck and top generally comes in a cold 
climate (but I see you are in FL) or from short trips where the engine does 
not reach full temp.  It is essentially water (and other) vapor that did not 
burn off (fully evaporate) and instead condensed because the engine did not 
get hot enough.  Do you have the shrouds in place with working thermostats?

The miss could be from a number of causes - such as poor plug wires, bad 
coil, worn out breaker plate or points, vacuum advance not working, and a 
few others.

The bouge up the crankcase vent generally indicates a tired engine (at least 
rings), but the results of your compression test sound reasonable.  So - 
possibly something else is the cause?

Later, JR
CCE CORSA CORVANANTICS SCG member
'61 Rampside Standard 4/110
'65 Monza Convertible 4/140


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jay Ciampi" <jciampi at embarqmail.com>
To: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 3:43 PM
Subject: <VV> Car puffing smoke up through the PCV tube


> Hi guys,  I have a bit of a problem with my 64 Monza with a 95 hp engine. 
> It seems that
>
> 1. I have smoke puffing out the PCV tube into the air cleaner when 
> running.
>
> 2. I have a white substance inside of my oil filler tube. It looks like 
> what would happen on a water-pumper when the head gasket is blown.  It 
> must be gas mixing with the oil. Right?  I ran a compression check on all 
> cylinders and they all read within 5 lbs of 150 lbs. I don't know how 
> accurate the gauge is, it was borrowed.  I am guessing that the fuel pump 
> is leaking gas into the oil.  I don't have the white frothy stuff on the 
> dipstick. It looks normal.  The car runs rough when it will start.  It was 
> running ok until I took a 10 mile jaunt with it to a car show. On the way 
> home it started sputtering on me. It seemed like it would smooth out over 
> 40mph, but anything slower than that it ran like it only had 5 cylinders.
>
> Has anyone experienced this situation and if so, how did you fix it?  New 
> fuel pump?  Rebuild the old one?
>
> Jay Ciampi
> CORSA
> Lake Placid, FL.
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