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    Oil in Header

    79 425E Has been sitting for a few years.

    I'm seeing a bit of white smoke out the exhaust, and in the process of other stuff pulled the headers off. The left cylinder header is dry with a small amount of soot, the right side is black and sticky with oil. Is this the sign of a serious problem. These are the original headers and exhaust system so I didn't think they would be real clean inside anyway.

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    Sounds like valve seals. You could do a compression/ leakdown check just to make sure it's not blowby.
    1166cc 1/8 ET 6.09@111.88
    1166cc on NOS, 1/8 ET 5.70@122.85
    1395cc 1/8 ET 6.0051@114.39
    1395cc on NOS, 1/8 ET 5.71@113.98 "With a broken wrist pin too"
    01 Sporty 1/8 ET 7.70@92.28, 1/4 ET 12.03@111.82

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      #3
      Jake nailed it on the head...good advice.

      Hap

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        #4
        Originally posted by Hap Call
        Jake nailed it on the head...good advice.

        Hap
        That sounds an awful lot like a pun to me......

        Jeff

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