Re: spider oil vapor seperater

[Godfrey DiGiorgi <ramarren@domain.elided>]

The gas exit from the vapor separator is supposed to be routed into the 
intake air plenum. If you're seeing a large amount of oil coming out of 
the separator, it's usually indicative that the engine is worn to the 
point of a lot of blowby is escaping into the crankcases and oil control 
is failing on one of the cylinders, at least. 

Might be time for a leakdown test and possibly an engine overhaul. 

Godfrey

>my 78 spider has begun leaking fairly large amounts of oil into the
>engine compartment via the gas exit hose for the oil vapor seperater.  it
>never noticably did this before, but does it now such that when this oil
>heats the fumes become unbearable.  someone suggested routing the hose
>into one (of the dual) weber carburetors.  is this a good bad idea? 
>should i get a new unit?  and is this a normal problem/occurence on
>spiders?

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