Just a quick update --
I got a wild hair today and decided to pull the water pump and swap in a new one...
Also went through the extra effort of finding the "stamped" metal/rubber gasket...
Even though my coolant elbows are fairly new, I thought since I was pulling the water pump, might as well get some new elbows as well...
On a good note, I found that the PCV valve for some reason had 2 o-rings in the PCV "chamber"...I looked and inspected for some time before I noticed the 2nd o-ring in there...
It was causing the lip of the PCV valve to be above the bottom of the side-draft opening for the air flow...
I sketched up something in paint of what I noticed--
Hopefully finding this issue resolves the oiliness under the blower...
Also, after everything was back together, I tried to pressurize the cooling system again and started spraying fittings with soap water...
I found the heater core hose adapters o-rings were shot and being Chevy is closed today, I picked up 2 of these --
http://www.amazon.com/Dorman-47027-H.../dp/B00G3YU0ZW
The price for the o-ring from the dealer is 14.00 and local price for new fitting was 16.00 so in essence I paid for having them now...
It's getting late here so I have to plan on putting a bow on it tomorrow...
Thanks again for following along...
