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- From: mgb5528@cc.utah.edu (MICHAEL G. BECK)
- Subject: Re: Help! Put oil in a Bug, and it disappears!
- Message-ID: <20NOV199213163645@cc.utah.edu>
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- References: <1992Nov20.170103.11314@nntp.nta.no>
- Date: 20 Nov 1992 13:16 MST
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- In article <1992Nov20.170103.11314@nntp.nta.no>, BARANSKI@veamf1.nusc.navy.mil (Jim Baranski) writes...
- {I have a 71' bug, which has recently developed a problem.
- {
- {I've been putting a *lot* of oil into it recently, like a quart every fill up!
- {Yet it only smokes a little only when it starts up, and it isn't leaking.
- {
- {Where could the oil be going? The front seal was just replaced, and I've heard
- {that oil can leak into the clutch housing...
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- I had that happen to me a couple of years ago in '71 Super Beetle. One sure
- way to tell if the oil is going into the clutch housing is if the clutch is
- slipping at high rpm's going up a hill.
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