Ford Racing 427 burning oil

[Luce]

If anyone has changed them yet, can you tell me what the sizes are so I can have them in hand before I change them. I may go ahead and buy them and have them in my tool box for later.

[68pony]

Originally Posted by Luce

If anyone has changed them yet, can you tell me what the sizes are so I can have them in hand before I change them. I may go ahead and buy them and have them in my tool box for later.

We are changing mine today, i will let you know how it goes and which seals we used, the smoke coming out of mine was embarassing, i pulled over in front of a cafe and almost choked everyone to death from the smoke and i got some evil looks
cheers chris.

[Luce]

Yea, NO. I don't want to be making excuses for a motor that smokes like a piece of ...Well, this forum won't let me use my extended vocabulary.

Please, let me know what size they are.

[68pony]

Great news, no more smoke, the seals were the issue, i drove home from my mechanic about 20mins there was a bit of traffic pulled on to my driveway and let it idle for 5 minutes and nothing what a great sight, now look at the photo of 2 0f the seals( all were the same but took a photo of 2) what do you notice, they don't have a clip on the top part of the seal only the big centre part, the ones we put in were white but had a clip on the top part of the seal where it tappers down also my mechanic said there wasn't much tension on the main clips, this is the reason why they leaked, i will be sending the bill to ford racing after the new year for the removal of a perfectly sealed manifold and re install including gasket and the removal and re fit of new seals, i won't send them the bill for the loss of hear ive had through this ,lets see what they do i will send back half the seals to them and keep the other half incase they go missing in the mail, why would they fit crappy seals like that,