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2022/12/02 11:31:07
Navydad2005

Breather reed flap

What causes oil to sip out thru the reed and into exhaust intake to carb.could breather reed be bad.its on a 8.5 hp Briggs and Stratton engine
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SRTsFZ6
The oil your getting blown out the breather is from "blow by" (worn piston rings), or a worn/damaged cylinder.
 
Compression is getting past the rings, into the crankcase, then forced out of the breather...
 
This can be confirmed by doing a leak down test..  You'll hear/feel air escaping from the combustion chamber come out thru the oil dip stick.
 
I just had a 6.75 Briggs, same thing.  I tore it down as I needed the crankshaft out of it..  The ring end gap looked good but there was some pretty bad scoring on 2 sides of the cylinder bore.   That was apparently causing my blow by
 
 
2022/12/02 18:45:56

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