Tom, My guess is the case instead of being vented to the atmosphere has a vacuum line to burn off oil vapors. Eck - >On Sat, 1 May 1999, Eckie Prater wrote: >>> My 82 air cooled had the same symptoms as above. >> I think it is one of the reasons the PO wanted to sell it. >> It had the tune up and a Petronics point replace module installed. >> Guess what? If the dip stick was just a little loose in the dip tube >> air sucked into the engine case. Ran like a big vacuum leak. >> If you push the dip stick in to the seal, problem solved. |
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