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- Subject: Re: Help! Put oil in a Bug, and it disappears!
- Date: 20 Nov 1992 22:56:42 GMT
- Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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- References: <1992Nov20.170103.11314@nntp.nta.no> <20NOV199213163645@cc.utah.edu>
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- In article <20NOV199213163645@cc.utah.edu> mgb5528@cc.utah.edu (MICHAEL G. BECK) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov20.170103.11314@nntp.nta.no>, BARANSKI@veamf1.nusc.navy.mil (Jim Baranski) writes...
-
- >{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...
- >
- >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.
-
- That's happening to my '69 Bug right now, which is one reason why I'm not
- driving up to the Sierra to enjoy the snow this weekend. But I'd like to
- raise one small issue: the oil's *got* to get out sooner or later!! Once
- oil sprays all over the clutch, it should drip out at the front of the engine.
- (... the other reason I'm not driving the car right now--embarassing
- pools of oil wherever I park...:-)
-
- Eric Edlund
- U.C.Berkeley Geography
- eric@pollen1.berkeley.edu
-