Hell, any knowledge would help. Recently got done building I6 front top to bottom. Thought I did everything right but seem to be getting a lot of oil in my breather filter. Only have about 1500 miles on it so far. Have my rings not had a chance to seat yet or what could be the problem. The engine itself runs great and pulls hard off acceleration. No smoke out the exhaust. Just a lot of annoying oil sitting below my tuck. I really hope I didn't crack the rings or install them upside down. I made sure to follow given advice from a builder on which way to put them. Thanks in advance.

 

You running a PCV valve I hope. Is it new?

Any of the oil passages clogged? Did you blow them out when you did the rebuild?

The Crankcase breather element is changed every 30,000 miles according to Maintenance schedule B.

It should not be dripping in oil at this early venture, unless there is severe blow by caused by something, (PCV Valve, defect in engine), or a return oil passage being plugged.

 

I have after market carbon and air filter. What would i hook th pfc up to and what would be the use? I didn't blow out the oil passages.

 

I meant carburator not carbon. How would I go about clearing out the passages. I had the block acid dipped before building.

 

If you don't have a PCV valve installed, it really should be added. The valve goes toward the rear of the valve cover, and the hose goes to a manifold vacuum source, similar to the power brake booster.
Without the PCV valve, all your blowby will back up into the breather, causing oil to puddle there.
All engines have some blowby, no way around it. The PCV valve is responsible for getting the blowby gases seperated from oil, and feeding them into the intake to be burned off.

 

So I keep the breather as well as add a pcv valve or get rid of the breather and install the pcv and the hose to the manifold acts as a breather? Am I track'in?

 

The PCV valve sucks clean air through the breather filter.

 

Keep the breather, as it's an intake source, but add the PCV valve to exit the blowby gasses.
Only having one of these items, and the system won't work as designed. They have to both be present in order to function correctly.

 

No PCV valve? That is definitely your problem.

 

Gentlemen, i know i am digging up a thread from the past but i wanted to end this conversation with my findings. I totally forgot about this post so i owe it the courtesy to end it. Here is what i found to be the problem:

No compression in #1 cylinder. When i installed the water pump i was an idiot and used too long of a bolt and it ruptured the casting. Thus in turn broke the rings and didn't make for a happy engine. Rebuilt and put a sleeve in it, runs great now. Here is a picture and the latest on my build.

https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/1...0-i6-done.html

 

Shoot, also, installed PCV and breather tube to air filter. Loves the setup...DUH!