Kid_Again
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- Joined
- Jul 6, 2004
- Messages
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- Location
- NJ - Which exit you from?
- Corvette
- 65 SB Roadster, 66 BB Coupe
Let's begin at the beginning and see what you guys come up with. I solved the problem, eventually.
Here's the chronology:
'65 sb, worked but #match block
about a year ago, it broke the end of the oil dipstick when i started it up - WTF? (so i knew that Bubba did SOMETHING during the rebuild)
early fall, I install a new dash harness, took my time, made sure there was no stress on any wires or anything poking through the firewall - no problems when I powered it up electrically the first time
had a nasty problem with the "irritating drop of oil" on the bottom of the oil drain plug (original 5+1 qt shp oil pan) and temporarily fixed it...got ****ed one night about that damn dipstick so I took the damn pan off and replaced it with a brand new 4+1 pan (I should add that I also took off that cheap **** spin-on oil filter adapter and replaced it with the canister, new NAPA filter and gasket, looks like no more leaks there:bang
when I took the oil pan off, I found that the rebuilder had installed a Moroso windage tray and the alignment between the dipstick block hole and the hole in the windage tray was SO close that one day, I "just missed" the windage tray hole with the dipstick, it curled upward and said HELLOOOO to a rod end ....so, I radiused the windage tray WAY large, removed the old pickup, tacked in the new, buttoned it up and we're good to go.....almost
fired it up for the first time since the dash harness/new pan, checked underneath for leaks, nothing, 65* out, top down and it drove like a champ (little rich but just fine), oil pressure is fine, a song in my heart, yada yada yada....pull back in the garage, up on the lift, come back a half an hour later, a puddle of DIRTY oil right under the front of the tranny (thank god for drip pans)
now I'm confused because this is the FIRST fire up since the new pan (fresh oil of course) and I wonder HOW IN THE HELL did I tip the car so far forward that the FRONT of the Muncie is leaking (there's no front seal on a Muncie for newbies)...the oil was coming down the front of the tranny case and had spread to the bottom of the bell housing where there was a BIG FAT DROP....the new oil pan DOES NOT LEAK, the rear pan seal is completely dry, the front of the flywheel is bone dry, the pressure plate appears bone dry, clutch action in motion is perfect just like before, and now, there is no longer a leak at the oil pan drain plug
so, I pop the Muncie drain plug, believing that somehow, transmission oil was spontaneously created in the tranny, causing an overflow situation but the oil was dead level with the lower threads..and this is the ONLY dirty oil in the vicinity
So, the problem is new crankcase oil, no tranny oil overfill situation but I have dirty oil coming down the front of the tranny, bottom of the bellhousing
one hint...there is NO oil leak when it just sits and idles...NONE, NADA, ZIPPO
NOTHING is cracked. Whudya' think?
I have pictures of the solution.
Here's the chronology:
'65 sb, worked but #match block
about a year ago, it broke the end of the oil dipstick when i started it up - WTF? (so i knew that Bubba did SOMETHING during the rebuild)
early fall, I install a new dash harness, took my time, made sure there was no stress on any wires or anything poking through the firewall - no problems when I powered it up electrically the first time
had a nasty problem with the "irritating drop of oil" on the bottom of the oil drain plug (original 5+1 qt shp oil pan) and temporarily fixed it...got ****ed one night about that damn dipstick so I took the damn pan off and replaced it with a brand new 4+1 pan (I should add that I also took off that cheap **** spin-on oil filter adapter and replaced it with the canister, new NAPA filter and gasket, looks like no more leaks there:bang
when I took the oil pan off, I found that the rebuilder had installed a Moroso windage tray and the alignment between the dipstick block hole and the hole in the windage tray was SO close that one day, I "just missed" the windage tray hole with the dipstick, it curled upward and said HELLOOOO to a rod end ....so, I radiused the windage tray WAY large, removed the old pickup, tacked in the new, buttoned it up and we're good to go.....almost
fired it up for the first time since the dash harness/new pan, checked underneath for leaks, nothing, 65* out, top down and it drove like a champ (little rich but just fine), oil pressure is fine, a song in my heart, yada yada yada....pull back in the garage, up on the lift, come back a half an hour later, a puddle of DIRTY oil right under the front of the tranny (thank god for drip pans)
now I'm confused because this is the FIRST fire up since the new pan (fresh oil of course) and I wonder HOW IN THE HELL did I tip the car so far forward that the FRONT of the Muncie is leaking (there's no front seal on a Muncie for newbies)...the oil was coming down the front of the tranny case and had spread to the bottom of the bell housing where there was a BIG FAT DROP....the new oil pan DOES NOT LEAK, the rear pan seal is completely dry, the front of the flywheel is bone dry, the pressure plate appears bone dry, clutch action in motion is perfect just like before, and now, there is no longer a leak at the oil pan drain plug
so, I pop the Muncie drain plug, believing that somehow, transmission oil was spontaneously created in the tranny, causing an overflow situation but the oil was dead level with the lower threads..and this is the ONLY dirty oil in the vicinity
So, the problem is new crankcase oil, no tranny oil overfill situation but I have dirty oil coming down the front of the tranny, bottom of the bellhousing
one hint...there is NO oil leak when it just sits and idles...NONE, NADA, ZIPPO
NOTHING is cracked. Whudya' think?
I have pictures of the solution.