Re: [ihc] Never overlook the obvious, or even the oblivious

["Ryan Moore" <baradium@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

By front cover, do you mean the timing gear cover?

-Ryan

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Stricker" <jstricke@domain.elided>
To: "IHC Digest" <ihc-digest@domain.elided>
Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 21:43
Subject: [ihc] Never overlook the obvious, or even the oblivious


<snip>
> can't find a crack, but the bolt is oil soaked and it appeared to be
running
> out of there, so we used a new bolt, wrapped in Teflon tape with "the
right
> stuff" pumped into the hole before we installed the bolt.  One good thing,
> though, was that the dye proved to us positively that the oil was NOT
coming
> from the front seal, distributor, valley cover, or valve cover gasket.  At
> least we were narrowing it down.
>
> Finally, today, we decided to try a new approach.  We took the alternator
> bracket, a/c compressor, and alternator completely off.  We found a belt
in
> the shop that would run the water pump using the p/s pump as a tightener.
I
> put another ounce of dye in 3 more quarts of oil and overfilled it three
> quarts.  I was going to find a leak somehow, somewhere.  And I did.  It's
> fixed.
>
> I've given you all the information you need to tell me where it is, so
tell
> me.  I may even give a prize to the person that comes up with the answer.
> I'll give you until midnight, so you'll have to email me and digest
readers
> just lose out.
>
> John Stricker