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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: <20NOV199219085840@cc.utah.edu>
- Summary: Trick Question
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- Organization: University of Utah Computer Center
- References: <1992Nov20.170103.11314@nntp.nta.no> <20NOV199213163645@cc.utah.edu> <1992Nov20.214440.8481@pony.Ingres.COM>
- Date: 20 Nov 1992 19:08 MST
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- In article <1992Nov20.214440.8481@pony.Ingres.COM>, garrett@Ingres.COM (WE'RE ONLY HERE BECAUSE WE'RE NOT ALL HERE) writes...
- {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 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...
- {>
- {>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.
- {>
- {DON'T ANSWER HIM! It's a trick answer. Everyone who has owned a beetle knows
- {that YOU CAN'T GO UP A HILL AT A HIGH RPM IN A BEETLE! Thought you could
- {fool us, eh Michael? What is your REAL agenda?
- {
- {> Michael Beck
- {> Michael.Beck@M.CC.UTAH.EDU
- {> MGB5528@CC.UTAH.EDU
- {
- {-garrett
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- You can when you have a slipping clutch and no power is transferred to the
- wheels because of an oil soaked clutch pad. Really fun when you can't get up a
- hill on the way home one afternoon.
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