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Tomb:
My 500 was like that, I re-routed the breather pipe over the chain and had a permanently oiled chain..... for 30 years, riding to work and back. As said, its just water in the oil from short journeys and the engine not being warmed through. Change the oil and filter. It may take a couple of changes to get all the emulsion out of the engine.

I had an old push rod engine Escort that was terrible for it, doing the tappets (often on the old Kent engines ::)) had the rocker cover off, it was thick with white sludge that when cleaned out was full of water. And that engine did 120,000miles.

royhall:
Blimey Tomb, 120,000 miles out of an Escort, that's about five times what I got with oil changes every 2000 miles. Mind you I was only 18 so it was maxed out most of the time.

Tomb:
It was using a bit of oil, best thing was the Escort had perfect sills when it went for banger racing, boring car but bloody dependable, which is all I ever want out of a 4 wheeled tin box.

Bryanj:
120,000 out of a Kent engine if used and serviced right----20,000 from the little old ladies version

royhall:
My heap was a 1972 Escort 1.3L in horrible brown colour. Thought it was a Kent engine but may be wrong. Fantastic fun car for an 18 year old, went everywhere sideways. You could virtually rebuild that engine whilst your mum made your tea. Cant do that with a modern car, but that said you dont need to. Cant complain about the old girl though, I treated it to a very hard life and it stood up pretty well. Kids, bless em.

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