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Dumb question.

How is the oil cap removed from the valve cover? This one won't come out no how. There must be something simple I'm missing. I had to funnel oil in through the valve cover breather hole.

Also, how was the valve cover breather fed? Did it have a tube running over to the air filter housing from the valve cover? I see no hole in the housing.

Thanks, Mark

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That is an oil cap from a later engine. PULL!!!

I'm assuming both the valve cover and cap must be from a later engine.


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If I am remembering right, on the 66 cover the oil cap should be a breather, the pcv valve goes into the top of the valve cover at the back and the hole your's has with a breather in it won't even be there

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Ya that cap is rubber, but probably hard as a rock now.  just pull like hell.

You need to replace it with a vented breather cap that will allow fresh air in, otherwise it wont get fresh air into the crankcase



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It does have a breather on the side though Dave, even though it's not the right setup for that car.

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Oh, ya, i just noticed that.  right it will all work,  but the valve cover is from a 69 or later motor.



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Maybe the engine is later?

Where and what numbers on the block will decipher it?



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Here are two photos of a stock 230 in a '65 Biscayne, we had one in our 65 Laurentian, sadly I can recall Dad cursing it on cottage runs because it wasn't up to the 61's 261 on passing power. 

 

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On the block by the distributor;

F0930CBJ

 12W155851

Block casting;

3984266



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Wow! A 230 with power steering and air conditioning. Must be a real ball of fire to drive.

As for the plug my 69 Chevy Pickup has the same setup which is kind of a pain. I find, especially in winter, that you have to actually have the engine warmed up thoroughly to soften the cap enough to pull it out without a real fight. Putting it in cold is pretty much impossible.



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I found a CBJ 72 250 powerglide code listed.

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Well based on that casting number I'm going out on a limb and declaring this to be a Flint engine that big F in the number. So being a Canadian Pontiac it would have had a McKinnon engine which is a K. It's not an original engine imo.



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The CBJ was a clue for me. So far I have never seen a 3 letter code on a Canadian Pontiac (Chevy) engine before 1969. With that said, there is one exception.

The mid 60's engines that had a choice of Holley or Rochester carb sometimes had an H or an R after the normal 2 letter engine suffix code, but to decode those you just ignore the R or H because it seems virtually no decoders recognize them.

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I found something about the suffix BJ meaning 1969, No Air, Taxi or Police, Powerglide. Maybe it was a GM replacement engine?



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