Burning oil / crankcase pressure after rebuild
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Burning oil / crankcase pressure after rebuild
Hi everyone,
Sorry if this has been answered many times before, I searched but had trouble finding similar conditions, most threads about burning oil are on high mileage engines.
I have an F22B1 I rebuilt (first time building a piston engine) after the timing belt snapped resulting in a few bent valves. I replaced pistons, rings, and crank bearings. I honed the block using a 3 stone hone on a drill from autozone (the finest one they had was much more coarse than what the FSM calls for which could be part of the problem). I replaced the bent valves and valve seals, lapped all the valves by hand, I did not replace the valve guides but they did not have much play (did not use a mic to measure).
Has about 2000 miles on the rebuild, I did not follow any rebuild procedure besides replacing the oil and filter after 30 min of run time. I am burning oil, leading to misfire and having to replace the plugs fairly often. Oil is in the intake manifold so I am assuming I am pressurizing the crank case and oil is being sucked through the PCV.
I cannot find my compression numbers but they were within spec per the FSM. Leak down test results were as follows:
-Cylinder 1: 15% leakage, sounds like leaking into crankcase
-Cylinder 2: 37% leakage, sounds like leaking into cylinder 4?
-Cylinder 3: 20% leakage, sounds like leaking into intake
-Cylinder 4: 20% leakage, sounds like leaking into exhaust
Is there any reason why one cylinder would be leaking into another or was I just confused on what I heard? I was thinking that I should vent the valve cover / run an oil catch can for now but that doesn't address the root cause. What could I have done wrong on the rebuild, clock some rings wrong or do you think it is due to the DIY hone?
Thank you for reading!
Matt
Sorry if this has been answered many times before, I searched but had trouble finding similar conditions, most threads about burning oil are on high mileage engines.
I have an F22B1 I rebuilt (first time building a piston engine) after the timing belt snapped resulting in a few bent valves. I replaced pistons, rings, and crank bearings. I honed the block using a 3 stone hone on a drill from autozone (the finest one they had was much more coarse than what the FSM calls for which could be part of the problem). I replaced the bent valves and valve seals, lapped all the valves by hand, I did not replace the valve guides but they did not have much play (did not use a mic to measure).
Has about 2000 miles on the rebuild, I did not follow any rebuild procedure besides replacing the oil and filter after 30 min of run time. I am burning oil, leading to misfire and having to replace the plugs fairly often. Oil is in the intake manifold so I am assuming I am pressurizing the crank case and oil is being sucked through the PCV.
I cannot find my compression numbers but they were within spec per the FSM. Leak down test results were as follows:
-Cylinder 1: 15% leakage, sounds like leaking into crankcase
-Cylinder 2: 37% leakage, sounds like leaking into cylinder 4?
-Cylinder 3: 20% leakage, sounds like leaking into intake
-Cylinder 4: 20% leakage, sounds like leaking into exhaust
Is there any reason why one cylinder would be leaking into another or was I just confused on what I heard? I was thinking that I should vent the valve cover / run an oil catch can for now but that doesn't address the root cause. What could I have done wrong on the rebuild, clock some rings wrong or do you think it is due to the DIY hone?
Thank you for reading!
Matt