Originally Posted by onehundred80
I helped a friend repair a '56 Chevy Bel Air in 1964 and the engine was plugged solid with dried sludge, the rockers were completely dry as the oil-way in the rocker shaft was plugged solid. The push rod holes were plugged solid except where the rods moved, in fact the sludge had a polished look to it where the rods rubbed against the hardened sludge. Seemingly these cars came with the option of an oil filter and this car did not have one.
Maybe the previous owner was someone with Joliet John's philosophy.
I'm still chuckling 180!! Yeah, that '56 Chevy had a "road draft tube" with no filter of any kind, also negative pressure during a portion of piston travel caused any dust to be sucked right in the crankcase! Remember the smoke pouring out of the tube when you had blowby past the rings? Really nifty! I rember when PVC came out, a mech. friend said the engine was eating it's own garbage........So much for progress.
Art Rigsby
P.S. onehundred80: Hot as "hell" here, garage 100+ deg.. Will ck those top and trunk sensors this week. Thanks.
John from Joliet: please don't mind us old timers, we don't know it all by any stretch, just things we've run into in the "class of hard-knocks" Please keep posting...........Art