At 3:25 PM -0800 3/8/00, Mike Miller wrote: >That's the worst Guinness in the world. Means you got big problems, as in a >busted engine. That's water mixed in the oil and emulsified. Bad ju ju. > >In order of price, blown head gasket, cracked head, cracked block. >----- Original Message ----- >From: Jason Willenbrock <pooncerelli@HOTMAIL.COM> > >this is an 82 aircooled with a > > rebuild of about 40k on her. Mike: Um, no. Jason's got an air-cooled engine. I think it's been a while since Mike's had an air-cooled. Somebody hand him a spliff, quick! Jason: don't sweat bullets on me, man. Everything's copacetic. Truck on over to the air-cooled list archives at http://www.type2.com/ and search on "yellow goo in oil", oil and emulsified, some such. Try it out, you'll get hits with a few descriptions I'm sure. (The Type2 archive search engine is a beautiful thing, BTW, very very good). You've got a bit of water in your oil. No biggie. Engine's sat for a while, huh? Condensation inside the crank case is how it got in there. If the oil hasn't been changed since coming out of winter storage, change it out, man. If it's new, take your ride for a good long highway run and evaporate that water right outta there. Go someplace. Search for America. My old aircooleds used to do that all the time, especially when it was cool and damp outside. Short driving runs where the engine can't heat up much before it shuts down and cools off adds to the problem. It creates a condensation *cycle*, dig? The foam doesn't taste anything like Guinness. Or so I hear. There was this, um... guy I knew who tried it once. Not me. Leave the head gasket worries to those waterboxer masochists. You got an *air* *cooled* man! You got it made! Brother! T. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tobin Copley Bowen Island, BC, Canada tobin.copley@ubc.ca '82 westy 1.6L NA diesel ("Stinky") '97 son Russell ============= '99 daughter Margaret /_| |__| |__|:| clatter 1995: 'Round US, Mexico, Canada 15,000 mi O|. .| clatter! 1996: Vancouver to Inuvik, NWT 7,400 km ~-()-==----()-~ Previous buses: '76 westy deluxe (Daisy), '76 westy standard (Mango) http://www.sfu.ca/~tcopley/vw/ |
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