It's really Gary!!!

Rebuilt engine in the car, and she seems to be running fine, but it is smoking!!!! I guess that the new rings haven't seated yet!! (I hope) Anyway, there was probably a quart of oil in the exhaust, so who knows!!! Anyway, she is smoking bigtime under load!! I will post when I get home about my little adventure!! Also, Tony, I am very sorry to hear about your mother in law!! Give Jerri a hug for me!! Thanks for all the support and the phone calls!! I can't wait to read the thread!!! I will do that tommorrow nite at home!! Thanks again guys!! OH!!! JDW, thanks for the airport tour!! :o) You guys are all great!!!!!!!!!!

glad you made it that far guy

Glad it's going good, Gary, even if it is smoking. (She's probably just glad to see you!) It will probably work itself out.

Sorry I couldn't talk to you more on the cell phone today, but you caught me just as we were pulling out of a rest stop, and it's real hard to talk on the cell phone with the top down, trying to acclerate on the on ramp!

We're in western Pennsylvania tonight, and will be home tomorrow. My B is running great. It's running a little hot (at 212 on the gauge), but running well and not overheating, so I'm assuming that's OK. (Real hot day today.)

Thanks, Gary....watch your oil pressure as you drive north....have cris pull a compression check....that oil should've burned out by now

What time are you leaving tomorrow? I'd like to see you before you leave.
I'm about 35 miles away.

Dick

If you've been taking it easy there could still be some residual oil in the exhaust system, especially if you have a rear muffler. It takes a real hot fire to burn it clean through and through. Check the PCV valve for proper operation. It should suck a larger volume at idle than at speed. If it's not cutting back at speed it will suck oil out of the engine. I'd rather believe something simple is going on especially since you blew so much oil into the exhaust system the other day.

Thanks guys!! Just pulled the plugs, #2 was fouled beyond belief!!! @!#$!!!!!! Anyway, engine out when I get home!! Dick, I will be leaving about 9:00 or 10:00 am!! I would like to see you again too, if possible!!

OK I'll be there about 9:00am.

We got up this morning and did a compression test. #1 is low, but came up some with oil added to the cylinder. 2-4 are within 3 lbs of each other, right around 145.
Gary's car was producing lots of oil fumes from the breather, so we capped of the pcv port, and ran a tube.
While we were getting oil and such, Jim Hanks and Dick Price were looking the car over, and came up with "He is running a non-vented filler cap". We pulled a new vented filler cap out of the stock, Gary put it on, and there is now no "blowby".
As for #2 loading up, we theorize that with where Gary has the pcv mounted, (Canadian 18v intake manifold) right above 1 and 2 intake, the oil was all going to the #2 since it had better draft.
With luck, #1 just hasn't seated in because of all the oil, and when he gets home and does the compression check, all will be fine. We also retorqued the head.
Keep your fingers crossed! Dick is traveling with him as far as Hermiston.

Gary is still blowing smoke under load. We parted just outside of Hemiston on I-82 at 11:30 am headed north. Gary thinks it will make home OK. Wish him luck.

I heard from him, he is as far as Seattle and says he thinks it's getting better

It's got to be better than it was. And he had a lot of oil in the pipe before this morning.