Air breather full of oil

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Air breather full of oil
clothier avatar
clothier
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Ok here is my story. I left for work yesterday in my 1988 B2200. It was a cool 32 and my b doesn't like it, nothing new it usually take awhile for her to warm up. Well after driving about 12 miles she still doesn't want to run on out, i can't get anymore than 40mph. So I stop thinking my chock may be stuck, not the case the chock is open. so I continue my 45 mile trip to work and the closer I get the worse it starts to run. I make it to work and look in my air breather and is full of oil. ok I thinking its not getting enough air do to the soaked filter, nope thats not it still runs like crap. I got it home and tried to figure what was going on. I'm lost I dont know how all that oil got up there and why it run right. I checked the pcv, and looked for unhooked vac lines. I also did a compression test ans got around 110 psi avg. on all cyclinders. Oh I forgot in a weeks time went from 19mpg to 14mpg. Any advice would be great.
emjay avatar
emjay
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110 compression is too low, are you sure that your timing is alright? It sounds like your timing might be off a tooth. Also make sure that all spark plugs are out and the throttle is wide open for compression testing.

The oil in the filter area is common for our trucks a this age, try using a NEW OEM pcv valve, not a cheap one from Autozone and the such. There might be too much blowby though, which would signal the need for a rebuild.
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sincitylocal
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Check you plugs for fouling while you got 'em out.