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Date:         Mon, 7 Nov 2005 19:03:32 -0600
Reply-To:     Jim Felder <felder@KNOLOGY.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Jim Felder <felder@KNOLOGY.NET>
Subject:      Re: Film of oil all over back hatch
Comments: To: Wil Haslup <wil@CHARMFX.COM>
In-Reply-To:  <436FF63B.7030101@charmfx.com>
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For a while I was seeing a sparkle of droplets on my 90 across my rear window when passing under street lights. It turned out to be power steering fluid.

If you drive a diesel you will learn to diagnose the entire engine from the size, color and pattern of the droplets.

Jim On Nov 7, 2005, at 6:50 PM, Wil Haslup wrote:

> jimt wrote: >> My rear hatch had mysterious oily grease on it and had me severely >> confused for a while. on mine i suddenly realized i was looking at >> moly grease and i had blown the boot right off of the right outer cv >> joint. almost all of the grease was contained inside of the housing >> and not spread all over. >> jimt > > I've had a light sprinkle of oil drops for some time. It is nearly > clear so I'm thinking it's motor oil but I lose very little motor > oil....maybe half a quart in 3-5 tanks of gas. I guess lots of drops > might add up to that. I see some leaking near the boot near the > distributor and there is always a little near the filter and > cooler...but I have yet to figure out how to stop it for sure. > > > -- > > Wil > > > -- http://www.charmfx.com/ >


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