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Old 09-18-2011 | 05:38 AM
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Make sure not overfull of oil
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Old 09-18-2011 | 06:35 AM
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Originally Posted by Richiehd
Make sure not overfull of oil
Yep, check your oil levels. Are your breathers clogged up?
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Old 09-18-2011 | 08:23 AM
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Originally Posted by Richiehd
Make sure not overfull of oil
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Old 09-18-2011 | 09:34 AM
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Breathers could be clogged
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Old 09-18-2011 | 12:50 PM
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Like most have already said, it could be a couple different causes, or a combination.
Check leadowns.
Overfull of oil can create excessive windage, which can create crankcase pressure and pop out a dipstick.
Your breathers could be clogged, but this woudl more be a symptom of excessive blowby or windage clogging them with oil. Check them anyway.

My engine, 598ci N/A, would pop the dipstick out at 6000rpm, but would not blow a drop of oil out of any of the valve cover breathers. leakdowns at 4% or so. Put a locking dipstick on it and problem solved.

Lokar makes a very nice billet locking dipstick, reasonably priced as well.
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Old 09-18-2011 | 03:45 PM
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if you do not have a lot of leakdown, you need to get the engine to breathe better..had the same issue on mine with procharger, changed to 5/8 hoses off both valve cover to blower intake cured mine totally...
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Old 09-18-2011 | 04:27 PM
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What do you have for breathers on the valve covers? There may not be enough crankcase ventilation.
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Old 09-18-2011 | 07:41 PM
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I thought breather in valve cover were there to exhaust pressure from crankcase, not to breath from those valv cover hoses... was I wrong?
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Old 09-18-2011 | 08:26 PM
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They both do the same thing, relieve pressure from the crankcase. Sometimes those hoses to the flame arrester just aren't enough. Especially if you increase your cu.in.'s.
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Old 09-19-2011 | 06:19 AM
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on prochargers, they run right off the fittings on the valve covers to the the air bell on the supercharger, when mine were 3/8 blew oil out of dipstick...changed the fitting and hosed to 5/8 cured instantly...that pressure has to go somewhere..better blowing the dipstick than the intake end gaskets..which will as well....
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