2.0 Pinto Oil Leak

[Guest Marc101]

Hi all new here.just a quick question l have a good oil leak under/ around inlet manifold.lve asked afew people and they all say thats what Pintos do. The dip stick tube is lose if there any fix for that too don't think all the oil is coming from that. Any info would be great

Thanks

[Big Jim]

To fix the dipstick tube, take it out completely, clean it up at the part that goes into the engine block, then solder around the outside with plumbers solder, or better still brass brazing, now file it down slowly until it's a knock in fit into the engine.

The oil leak around the manifold will more than likely be from the rocker cover gasket, often due to over tightening of the bolts making the cover deform, a new gasket, the cover reshaped flat around the edges , and the correct spreaders underneath each bolt, tightened correctly should sort it.

[Dave R]

possible bottom breather leak ??

where do the breathers connect to ?? inlet or puke tank... is the valve intact in the bottom breather- if it goes to a tank, then it wants removing....

picture of where it appears to come from would help

[Guest Marc101]

Thanks for the very fast replys l'll put a photo up as soon as l can thankyou very much

[Guest Marc101]

Hope the photos work.... I guess not hard work trying to do on my phone

http://tinypic.com/r/9zlzzp/9

 

http://tinypic.com/r/1492vb6/9

Edited July 26, 2017 by Marc101

[Guest Marc101]

Should there be anything in the top of my breather value ? Sorry totally new to pinto engines

[theduck]

 

[Jez Morton]

There should be a pipe connecting to inlet manifold.

[tractor]

Oh there's your problem the crank breather pipe missing if there is a connection for it on your inlet manifold the not only are you passing oil every where it will also be running very badly

[Guest Marc101]

Thanks for sorting photos out.... So there should be a pipe from inlet to the value l can't see any photos online to see what it looks like. So will that make it low on power too cheers for all info

[Big Jim]

check out this thread. http://www.rhocar.org/index.php?showtopic=34389

[Guest Marc101]

I've just found this cable tied to the bottom of my water bottle..l guess that pushes in the heather value next to oil filter ...http://tinypic.com/r/dg5ab9/9

Edited July 26, 2017 by Marc101

[Bob Tucker]

That metal canister pushes into the rubber bung thingy just under the green wotsit in your 2nd pic.

Yes it will lose power with it missing.

The real question is why someone went to the trouble of removing it & hiding it away,

when replacing it in the right place would have been easier & quicker..

Replace it, degrease the engine before you run it again & see what happens.

[Guest Marc101]

Yeah giving it a good clean now.only owned the car about 6 weeks the guy l got it off did state it had a leak. I guess it was put up out the way to work on something else and just forgot about it.

[Guest Marc101]

Thanks for all the help done about 15miles there and no oil in sight