i have fixed many things since i bought the car, mostly small, but the last thing left, which just started is: a wonderful oil leak somewhere on the front of the engine, mybe towrds the passenger side. its is a slow leak, becasue i wouldn't even notice it IF the freakin oil wasn't getting on the exhust manifold (only an aftermarket oone id called a "header", right?) and causeing that to burn off and making a crap load of smoke. i look like an *** when i pull up to someones house, park, get out, and 2sec later a bunch of smoke is pouring out form underneath my hood. i recently did an oil change, but i am having trouble getting to teh area to get a closer llok. OMP mybe? any ideas would be GREAT!

 

weird, thats what mine does too, im gonna look into rebuilding the omp this weekend,,,later...

 

Yeah I'm guessing it's the OMP. Mine did the same thing. Strange cuz the mechanical OMP's have a very rare failure rate. I plugged my OMP lines and I run full premix now. Clean up the area of the leak a bit and check it again.

 

how hard is it to replace the OMP, there isn't much room down there to work...

 

It's not that hard to remove or work on. I first removed my air-pump and that gave me plenty of room to work. Rebuilding the pump is pretty easy too. Give Lowe Performance a call and order your $20 kit, get yourself some brake cleaner to clean the parts and your all set.

 

wait..you can take the omp out and run premix?...what kinda oil would be used with the gas...2 cycle or 10w something?

 

2cycle, that way it mixes properly and doesn't clog your fuel filter or anything. Also burns cleaner.

 

and smellls nice too hu?

 

Right on...and here is some help for ya as I just did this.

http://www.godofredo.com/mound/3-11-03.html

Right on