Well if you want weird, my first car a '52 ford, when it ran out of gas it would suck oil and run on that. At least that is the only explanation I ever could come up with why it only ran low on oil when I ran the gas tank dry (at 17 that happened all to often).
-graywolf David Savage wrote: > On 5/13/07, John Sessoms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> From: >>> frank theriault >>> n 5/11/07, Walter Hamler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> How many miles on the engine? >>>> I would strongly suspect leakage past the valve guides, where it gets >>>> burned. Have someone check the exhaust as you crank it up after sitting >>>> overnight. If you get a puff of blue smole it's a good indicator of bad >>>> valve guide seals and/or worn valve guides. >>> I used to own a '79 Rabbit. >>> >>> I was thinking valve guides, too. >>> >>> cheers, >>> frank >> Had an 80 Rabbit diesel pickup truck. The only time it didn't leak oil >> was when all the oil was already leaked out. ;-D > > That reminds me of a line from a Tom Clancy novel that when something like: > > If it's leaking (oil), it's full, and we're alright. If it's not > leaking, it's dry, and we're in trouble. > > (in reference to the engines on a helicopter) > > Cheers, > > Dave > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
