Oil in the intake boot.
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Oil in the intake boot.
Just for everyone's info:
One day I was cleaning my engine compartment and decided to take the intake boot and MAF off, when I saw standing oil in the boot and the throttle body black from oil residue. When I manually opened the throttle I saw that black crap was all over the inside of the intake into the s/c.
The oil is coming from the breather tube on the drivers side valve cover which is vented into the intake boot.
SVT says that a small amount of oil is "normal", but when he dug around a bit he found a service bulletin stateing that you will see more oil if you fill the oil level anywhere past the middle of the min/max line on the oil fill stick. If you keep the oil level below the middle of the min/max line you will barely see a drop of oil in the intake. Just thought I'd let everyone know.
Jason
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Black '99 #398 of 4000
SHM mass air/filter, SHM chip, Level 10 shift kit and converter.
13.71 @ 98.2 mph (stock)
13.34 @ 102 mph (chip/mass air)
Converter/shift kit to be tested soon
One day I was cleaning my engine compartment and decided to take the intake boot and MAF off, when I saw standing oil in the boot and the throttle body black from oil residue. When I manually opened the throttle I saw that black crap was all over the inside of the intake into the s/c.
The oil is coming from the breather tube on the drivers side valve cover which is vented into the intake boot.
SVT says that a small amount of oil is "normal", but when he dug around a bit he found a service bulletin stateing that you will see more oil if you fill the oil level anywhere past the middle of the min/max line on the oil fill stick. If you keep the oil level below the middle of the min/max line you will barely see a drop of oil in the intake. Just thought I'd let everyone know.
Jason
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Black '99 #398 of 4000
SHM mass air/filter, SHM chip, Level 10 shift kit and converter.
13.71 @ 98.2 mph (stock)
13.34 @ 102 mph (chip/mass air)
Converter/shift kit to be tested soon
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From: Belleville, MI
I believe when this was covered before, BABolt had mentioned that he only uses like 5 1/2 Quarts of oil instead of the 6. He has 2 L, '99 and '00, and neither have the oil in the boot/TB.
