Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 16:11:45 -0400
Reply-To: Mike Bucchino <mbucchino@CHARTER.NET>
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From: Mike Bucchino <mbucchino@CHARTER.NET>
Subject: Re: Dying when warm and smells funky
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These heater boxes and associated ductwork are far from "sealed". Quite
the opposite, actually, as you'll discover upon closer examination. The
valve covers and pushrod tubes leak, dripping oil down on top of the heater
boxes and exhaust system. It seeps inside, over time, through the seams of
the outer jacket (and other ways like rust holes, etc.). Then every time
you heat up the exhaust again, it starts smoking and burning again, inside
the jackets. When you turn on the heat (ie; open the air flaps) you let
these noxious fumes into the vehicle........
It's been a problem with all ACVW's since the beginning. You're just new
to all this. BTW, my Porsche 911 has the same problem.
Even if you stop every single drip, you still have lots of oily deposits
trapped inside your heater boxes, impossible to ever clean out completely.
Now that all your leaks are fixed (for the time being!), you'll have to
replace the heater boxes. While your at it, do a thorough steam cleaning of
the entire engine, top and bottom, including the engine bay itself. Replace
all the paper/ foil hoses, clamp and seal all the duct work and hoses like
the factory did.
That should get you by for a while. The main thing is stop the oil leaks,
and it will lessen over time.
Or you could resign yourself to live with it.....
Mike B.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nathaniel Poole" <npoole@TELUS.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 2:24 PM
Subject: Re: Dying when warm and smells funky
> I've heard this before, but in this case the boxes are dry, and since they
> are sealed how would oil get in anyway? There's a lot to these rigs that
> seems so illogical. For instance, if the hot air system is pressurized by
> the fan, how would the hot oil smell get inside the ductwork? The fresh
> air
> intake is outside the vehicle. I'm tempted to take everything apart and
> find
> out what is going on.
> Do I sound naive? :)
>
> Nathaniel
>
>
> On 10/16/06 12:56 AM, "JordanVw@AOL.COM" <JordanVw@AOL.COM> wrote:
>
>> In a message dated 10/15/06 6:26:03 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
>> npoole@TELUS.NET writes:
>>
>>
>>> Also, when the heat is turned on the hot air smells like old engine. Is
>>> this
>>> just how these things work and you get used to it?
>>
>> yep. every aircooled vw i'v ever owned you just get used to the funky
>> oil
>> smell when your run the heat... only way out of that problem is to
>> completely
>> degrease the heaterboxes or replace them.
>>
>> chris
>>
>> chris
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