bicycle_ben

So I noticed a little engine oil in my air cleaner box the other day. today when I checked there was A LOT of oil and it was bubbly. it wasnt brown and foamy like when you get water in the oil, it simply looked like a straw had blown bubbles through it. the oil seems to be coming UP through the breather hose from the valve cover to the air cleaner. if my haynes manual serves me right it shows air should be going DOWN from the air cleaner to the valve cover. anyway this is part of the PCV system I guess and I really dont have any Idea how bad it is on a scale from a 1 dollar part to a new engine.

we are going to leave the coffee shop where we are getting internet and play with the car some. if someone figures something out could you guys call me in case i cant get internet? 503 538 1571 thanks so much for trying to help!

we are in more or less down town Minneapolis but we are going to see if we can work something out that lets us limp the car out to Shakopee, MN which is a few miles south and west of down town. can things get shipped to a USPS or FedEx / UPS office care of "ben howard" ?

by ea you mean like EA81 ?

i dont remember exactly how i got my pads in there when i did it but i know for a fact that i dont own any special tools and yeah we are kinda stuck here for a few days till we get this dealt with. Napa claims they can order some rebuilt ones or whatever but given NO ONE else even pretends to be able to order them im going to bet Napa is going to have trouble actually getting them for me. id totally have you send a set up but i dont have an address out here in the mid west, we are driving across the US from Oregon to NY and back.

i put pads in this thing when i got it and just stuffed the pistons back in there by hand somehow. isnt there that weird thing that fits inside the piston like a spread pair of pliers and helps you twist or somehow push the piston back in?

passenger side is the one that is sticking. my thought was that the leaking means the seal is broken which might cause the piston to jam against it somewhere. ill check and see if the pins are sticky too. the E brake on both sides will stick if you pull it. they dont return when the E brake is released so if i use the E brake i have to manually return each caliper.

i have an 81 GL wagon and my right brake caliper leaked a little. guess its tired of that because now its sticking, causing the brakes to drag. its chewed up the pads and now im sitting a few thousand miles from home and no one can find my brake calipers! i can get pads and drive it but its just going to keep eating them. should i look in junk yards to find less trashed calipers or what? -ben

i actually didnt have to remove any retainers or move anything to get the seals out. each seal had a little crack in it (where it was leaking) and i was able to poke a screwdriver in there and pop them out like you would any other seal

i got mine out and set to work putting in the ones Napa sold me... yeah they sold me something that was totally wrong and they didnt have the right thing in stock. they said they had one somewhere in portland and another one in seattle or something... not good they gave me a number CR 10666 schucks didnt have them. but gave me the part number skf 10665 auto zone didnt have them either but they gave me the number 222745 tomorrow im going to call and see if mcguire bearing in portland is open on the saturday of a holiday weekend because they stock a ton of bearings and seals for things.

i dont think i have anything like that on the 81 but ive never worked on this part before and my haynes manual almost pretends that these oil seals dont exist. i wish i had a picture of this - there really is nothing stopping the seal from coming out except that i cant get traction to pull it out.

so i have an 81 4WD wagon and the seals on the transmission outputs ( to the CV axles )are leaking on either side. the problem i have is i cant figure out how to get the old seals out without damaging something. can i just shove a screw driver in between the output shaft and the old oil seal then pry it out without hurting anything? it looks like i might hurt something that way but thinking about it now im fairly sure it would be ok.

hmm the picture is being screwy here too http://lh6.ggpht.com/_czIamuN1qLs/Sp3WKOc8KrI/AAAAAAAAAOk/1zaES8PK2y4/s912/IMG_3890%5B1%5D.jpg with and without the linky thing

my haynes repair manual calls it "solenoid valve 1" ... not very helpful. on the back it says hitachi and AESUI28 or AESU128 i think it might be an EGR solenoid valve but im not sure - no parts people including the subaru dealership knew what it was ... so i figure ill put the internet to good use basically the story is that someone prior to me had silicone ed the vacuum hose onto it(the mystery part) because the nipple the hose should attach to is broken off. the silicone has has decided to fall off causing a vacuum leak which causes the engine to idle poorly and has caused me to go hunting for a replacement instead of just ciliconeing it back on ...which i might just do i do like me some long run on sentences

if your idiot lights all come on id lean toward the alternator being bad. get it to the point where the car dies and then have schucks test the alternator