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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: <20NOV199219164314@cc.utah.edu>
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- Date: 20 Nov 1992 19:16 MST
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- In article <1ejqfaINN7lu@agate.berkeley.edu>, map@violet.berkeley.edu (Pollen Lab;103 ESB;38108;;NZ29) 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...
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- {>{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
- Your point is valid, but the way that I found out that I had the problem was
- not only the slipping clutch, but the fact that oil was leaking from the wrong
- areas, namely the front of the engine, not the rear where it normally would.
- Also you have to figure that it takes a lot of oil to fill up the clutch
- housing and flood the clutch and then come out of the housing in sufficient
- quantities that one would notice it leaking. One would notice the engine using
- immense amounts of oil.
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