stewartrjh wrote:
Interesting that a Road/Rally flywheel has no drain holes, but maybe they figure you should put new bushes in and stop the problem.
The engine has a tappet chest breather on it, the one with the can, which I cleaned all the sludge out of before the engine was built, I checked inside and it was not blocked. It did not have steel wool type stuff in it.
I ran the engine initially with a just a breather filter on top, but to see if the oil leak could be stopped I connected it to the HS6 SU port via a Corolla PCV-013, but it made no difference.
It did breathe quite heavily for the first 100 miles or so but has settled down quite well and now has about 1000 miles on it.
I will clean it all up and do a proper measure of the crank and if that is ok measure up the new bushes and put it back together and see how it goes.
Thanks for all the info, nice to have good confidence that you have not missed anything before you put it all back together.
Stewart.
If using your using a PCV then the hose should be connected to the manifold. If your connecting the hose to the carby port then you dont use a PCV.