Guys..... drove Slidey for a couple of hours today and when i returned to put him to bed, i lifted the bonnet and there was a fine wisp of smoke or steam eminating from the left carb air filter.................. i was thinking that maybe there was some excess oil from the breather pipe connected to the rocker cover being pushed through??????

Any ideas

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did you take a wift
smoke smells smokey
steam smells steamy (or like nothing)
oil smells oily
radiator coolant smells sweet

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Duc..... couldn't smell an odour... it was wafting from the top of the air filter...... i thought a hose or something might have been resting against something hot..... checked all the hoses and they were fine.....

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if you couldnt smell anything (if you tried to)
then perhaps it is steam hmmm
whereabouts was it coming from:
the airfilter area, or the actual inlet hole?

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Duc, it was coming from the front side of the air filter (see photo below)..........

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hmmm.
yeh youre right in that perhaps the rocker cover is pushing alot of steam
into the air filter
i reckon the steam is from the combustion process, and the outlet valves are doing something (maybe something theyre not supposed to be doing)

im no expert, but i heard sometimes people get a mayo(emulsification of oil and water) inside their rocker covers due to condensation
i think the exhaust gases are not going to the exhaust pipes, maybe some are getting out through the valve stem holes and to the cover.
i am not certain with the head of an engine, i have only seen the rockers once, sorry

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If the float level in that carb is a tad high, it will percolate fuel into the manifold when hot and stopped. But I reckon you would smell that..

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hot damn that's one clean engine bay!

hehe..... nermil, when i can bring myself to pull Slidey off the road for a week or so i am going to get many many bits that aren't chromed the treatment... i'm happy with the bay now, but u can never have enough bling...... just ask JAM

this pic is my fave of the bay.... pity i didn't bloody pull the firewall cover back up!!!!!!

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indeed, a good smattering of bling in there will look tops.

would it ve fair to say clubmans would run a few degrees cooler than roundies 'cos of the extra space? i'm not used to looking in the front of a roundy, but i noticed how tight the fit was with that bloke's one yesterday at the servo. would make reaching those hard to reach places even more difficult!

I think Clubbies run hotter, from hauling the extra weight and pushing more air out of the way..

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DrMini- 1970 wasaMatic 1360, Mk1S crank, 86.6HP (ATW) =~125 @ crank, 45 Dellorto (38 chokes), RE282 sprint cam, 1.5 rockers, 11.0:1 C/R.

Don't go there doc!
Theres lotsa clubby lovers who will fight u with words!

ruh roh! what have i started!

Don't get yer knickers in a knot-- we like (and own) Clubbies too!
Probably not much weight difference... in fact a dry Clubbie may be lighter than a wet roundnose.

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I see Slidey has a couple of nice screwdriver holders.... it's the best part about putting a Cooper S head on a 9 stud 1100S motor - you can put your screwdrivers in the extra holes and they'll never fall down!

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