Hi everyone,
As I sit here jealously hearing about snippets from Tamworth and wishing we were there, I thought I'd share a little issue I recently had with Gulliver.
Since fitting the new engine/gearbox, we have had very little opportunities to drive far, so with only 4 reasons to leave home most of the year, its been short runs to work, or to shop. Really nice and smooth to drive.
One such outing allowed me to finally open up Gulliver on the highway back in June for a few k's. Ran really well, but just as I hit the exit ramp, an oil smell wafted into the cabin. Then a plume of smoke behind. I had only around 200ks on the clock.
When I pulled over the engine bay was covered in oil, literally everything had fresh oil all over it. Still had heaps of oil in the sump, so got home ok. I lost about 150/200 mls of oil.

Couldn't see anything obvious like the oil pressure gauge line burst or anything like that, so I gave it a degrease and tried to make it happen again with a few short runs around the block. Nothing.
Things have just recently started to open up regionally here in Victoria so I took Gulliver for another run to Albury last week. Have about 700 k's on the clock now.
Coming back home at 110kph, an oil smell again around the same place as earlier. Just off the highway is a car lovers car wash, so I pulled straight in and sure enough, oil everywhere again. It had came out of the rocker cover cap.
I removed the hose that is fitted between the carbie and the breather I have on the clutch housing( I dont have a breather on the timing chain cover) and tried to blow back into the engine crank case, but it was blocked. Bugger, but at least I had something to follow up on. A quick degrease and wash, then back home.

When I removed the breather, I found that the gasket in between the housing and the breather didn't have a hole cut into it

, missed that one when I made it

. So I made a new gasket, cut the bolt holes AND the centre hole to allow it to actually breathe, and fitted it all back on. Went for a good 80k highway run at 110 kph with no issue this time.
Cant wait to go for a decent run now, hopefully very soon.
HP