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Engine oil use?
Bradders:
Hi Bryanj. It doesn’t smoke on start up and my wife has followed me in the car and she says she couldn’t see any smoke.
Nurse Julie:
So if it's not smoking that only leaves 2 possibilities. 1) Oil leak. 2) You are riding it flat out in the red in every gear for 200 miles 🤔🤔🤔
Bradders:
There’s a slight leak on the fins. Maybe I need to get my wife to follow me again and I’ll give it some welly to see if it smokes. Do you think it would be worth me putting some more Redex down the bores? Have done it once would there be any benefit to doing it again?
Nurse Julie:
Get Mrs Bradders to follow you again and ask her to look for smoke on hard acceleration and also on the over run (throttling off). Also, when you pull up, see if she smokes at idle. I don't see the benefit of more Redex at this stage personally. You say small leak on the fins, whereabouts?....rocker cover area or cylinder head area or barrels area, or is it difficult to know where it is coming from precisely?
Bradders:
Hi Julie. I think there’s a slight leak between cylinder and cylinder head also the rocker spindle cap and some of the oil sump pan bolts. Would that be enough to lose so much oil?
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