Your mechanic is a numbskull. Find a new mechanic. VW oil pumps (the only type I can speak authoritatively about) are notorious for *at least* weeping a bit. It is virtually impossible however (based on the way the VW pump is designed) for it to do much more than drip (i.e. it would have to have a gaping hole in order to do more). Launch this goof, and take it to someone who doesn't have recto-cranial inversion. G. Matthew Bulley Bulley-Hewlett Mount Olive, NC USA 877.658.1278 Tollfree www.bulley-hewlett.com My Agenda: Stop Suburban Sprawl. My Methods: Revitalize older, highly-dense, urban towns. Champion mass/rapid transit and fast Internet service to these towns. Demand replacement of archaic, "separationist" zoning laws with neo-traditional dense/mixed use zoning. The Result: All Americans obtain superior living opportunities; sprawl is restrained; and dense, beautiful, interlinked towns become our children's inheritance. Find out more at http://www.cnu.org
-----Original Message----- From: Daniel Danrich [SMTP:danrich@ccmaui.net] Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2000 2:06 PM To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Subject: Mechanic say's Oil pump can't leak slowly My mechanic say's Oil pumps can't leak slow because of the pressure behind it and would leak profusely in nature. I beg to differ because that seems to be where I'm losing oil from and if its not from the oil pump I'm stump after cleaning off and watching it leak from the edge of the square plate where the oil pump is. Any help? Dan |
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