Slandi 1. Heavy breathing - How old is your car? The early cars breathe so heavily that they have a setup to try and cope with a selection of pipe work which runs through a "oil separator" canister, bottom pipe goes back to the sump and another goes into the airbox for the carbs.
2. Oil leaks - Get the rubber cam cover gaskets (try Australian JOC) these seem to work best, but DON'T tighten the cam cover bolts too tight I cracked a cover doing this. If you can't stop the leaks entirely with the correct torque you have to live with it, it could be worse it's usual that the leak is onto the exhaust with lots of blue smoke on start up until burnt off the manifold. 3. Cooling - The set up is not really strange for the age of the car most cars I've come across from this period don't have a header tank just a pressure over flow pipe to the ground. Fuel - in the UK I used (and still do with the V8) standard unleaded 95 RON, I tried Super unleaded 97 RON but this had no marked difference except it is more expensive. Rob d'Eca JH-V8 - 13296 JOC No. 8081 UK, Croydon, Surrey http://www.rdeca.fsnet.co.uk/ _______________________________________________________________________ Courtesy the Jensen-cars mailing list. Subscribe and unsubscribe info at: <http://www.british-steel.org/faq/jensen-cars.html>.
