Re: [DML] Unprotected DeLorean Ignition Circuit

["Dave Swingle" <swingle_dmc@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

If the PCV side is plugged, you will get oil fumes going into 
the "clean" side of the air filter since it has to go somewhere. This 
is also a symptom of an engine with excessive blow-by, i.e. too much 
combustion gases getting past the rings. You see this on engines with 
a lot of internal wear, bad/cracked rings, broken piston. 

Dave S

--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Farrar <fhudkins@...> wrote:
>
> David,
> 
> Now that I think of it, the car was getting oil on the air filter 
before 
> the carburetor was installed. Not much oil at all, but isn't oil on 
an 
> air filter a sign of a failing PCV valve?
> 
> Farrar Hudkins
> #2613 "Sparky"
> 
> David Teitelbaum wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > I have another possible theory. Assume this happened on a 


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