Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 15:05:23 -0700
Reply-To: Tobin Copley <tobin.copley@ubc.ca>
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From: Tobin Copley <tobin.copley@ubc.ca>
Subject: Fwd: Westy 1.6L diesel oil leak
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Forwarding this to the vanagon list hoping someone here might be able
to help out this slow-lane inhabitant.
Please be sure to include the poster <maded@gte.net> in your reply,
as he is apparently not subscribed to the vanagon list. (Edward,
could you send me a summary when you get the problem licked?)
T.
>To: diesel fans <diesel@audifans.com>
>Cc: audi-VW-Diesels@egroups.com
>From: "maded" <maded@gte.net>
>Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 13:39:15 -0700
>Subject: [Audi-VW-Diesels] Westy 1.6 oil leak
>
>Greetings from Seattle and please excuse the multiple posts, I am still
>unsure of the addresses for the various lists.
>
>My 1.6na diesel Westy has a bad oil leak. There is a lot of blow-by on the
>180k mile engine and the crankcase pressure seems to force oil as a mist out
>the tight cap/dipstick of the oil filler pipe. There are no gaskets or
>o-rings on the cap with the exception of the one on the dipstick itself and
>the seal is imperfect. It does not take long before oil is dripping off the
>muffler and rear sheet metal. Oil is lost at about 1qt per 100miles. I
>posted about this before, but the leak seemed to go away by itself so took
>no action. Now it is back in force.
>
>In addition, the breather hose seems to have a hole worn in it from rubbing
>on the airfilter. Some small amount of oil is lost here, but there really
>seems to be less "wind" from the the valve cover when the breather is
>disconnected than that compared to the oil filler dipstick hole.
>
>We are planning to upgrade to a 1.9td so don't wish to put a lot of effort
>into this engine. What are the listee's experience with leaks of this kind?
> Does any one have any suggestions for something to get us through the
>summer camping season?
>
>I have thought I could take the extra oil filler cap I have, remove the
>dipstick and extenda-spout, add a gasket of some kind to the cap, run a hose
>from the cap to the breather hose which leads to the intake manifold. Is
>there danger of the engine running away? The oil mist from the oil filler
>feeding the intake? Another way might be to run the hose to an added
>fitting at the other end of the valve cover, thus allowing the valve cover
>to act as an air-oil-seperator. Comments, suggestions?
>
>Edward Lowe
>82 Westy diesel
>85 Golf diesel
>92 Cabrio
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Tobin Copley Bowen Island, BC, Canada tobin.copley@ubc.ca
'82 Westfalia 1.6L NA diesel ("Stinky")
'97 son Russell =============
'99 daughter Margaret /_| |_L| |__|:| clatter
1995: 'Round US, Mexico, Canada 15,000 mi {. .| 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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