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- Location
- Knoxville, TN
- Vehicle Year
- 1983
- Make / Model
- ford
- Engine Size
- 2.8
- Transmission
- Automatic
I have got an 83 ranger 4x4 with 180 something in it. I have got a 289 ready to go to the machine shop in a couple of months when I get some money saved up. I just rebuilt the c5 and it runs great. Before the tranny went out I had to rev the engine high to warm it up for the tranny to engage. It set for 2 months and when I reinstalled the tranny 2 months later the engine had more blow by than before. I had a catch can made with a hose from the filler tube to a can with a filter material in it with a vent filter on top. It worked okay but it blew alot of oil out too(smoke) We went to Wind Rock and it blew 1 quart of oil from Knoxville tn Lafollete which is about 40 miles ish. It smoked the whole time we were wheelin and it stalled all the time and the brakes were splashy cause the oil had compromised the vacuum lines. Anyway I tried to take out the EGR valve and run a tube from the filler cap to the EGR intake hole. And move the vacuum line from the back of the carb to the tree on the back of the intake manifold. When I started it I heard this hissing and it stalled out. I restarted it and found the hissing was coming from the dip stick. There was so much pressure it was almost blowing the dip stick out of the tube and oil everywhere. My question is this.... Is it worth trying to do anything to it to stop the blow by ie; replacing the rubber valve stem seats, or is it the rings and just a lost cause and just push to get the 289 back and in? Any advice would be appreciated. Especially id any one has dealt with this on a 2.8 before. Thanks
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