Okay, I have to confess, since getting bringing Emma home, I really haven't give her the kind of once over that I really should have but being that she was running so well (aside from the vapor locking issues), I just assumed all was well or at least, under the hood. After the oil light on the dash came on, I made sure to clean things up around the oil pump area and gave everything a closer look. Surprisingly, there were no new oil drips and a check of the dip stick confirmed that her 225 Dauntless V6 motor still had a full pan of oil. Giving things a look up top, I noticed that the PCV valve was just sticking out of the valve cover and not hooked up to anything (something I should have noticed a long time ago :doh: ) and this told me that part of my problem may have been related to there being too much pressure.
If I could guess, somewhere along my last drive, there was a build up of pressure that eventually released itself at the pressure valve and that left me with an oil pump that was no longer primed and could no longer pump oil. So, the first thing I did was to remove the plug from the back of the carburetor.
From there, I installed a brass barb and plumb an emissions hose to the PCV valve.
While I was at it, I found and reinstalled the old manual choke cable to the carburetor as well.
And, after all that, I fired up Emma's trusty Dauntless motor and what do you know... the oil light went off. On top of that, having the ability to adjust her choke manually again sure helped fine tune how she runs as well! So far, no new leaks but I will have to give her a good test drive to know for sure if and what all may still need some help.
