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I smelled the liquid on the floor and it smelled like pure gas, although it was a little dirty from the carbon in the exhaust. I will replace the plugs tonight, change the oil, and try to get the other oil/gas out of the cylinders as you suggest. Thanks. Jason 68 Notch ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Adney" <jadney@vwtype3.org> To: <type3@vwtype3.org> Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 9:58 PM Subject: Re: [T3] gas and oil coming out of exhaust > On 1 Oct 2001, at 10:32, veedub@apartment101.com wrote: > > > Is it possible that I dumped all of the fuel from the fuel bowls into the > > cylinders and drowned the spark plugs (hence the gas in my exhaust)? What > > do you suggest? I didn't notice any gas in my oil, but I did find oil > > coming out of the tailpipe. Was that because the gas was washing out all of > > the oil from the cylinders? > > The fact that it turned over and started tells us that you did not > hydrolock your cylinders. What you saw coming out of your tailpipe > was most likely water, the most common cumbustion product, > although it was likely dirty. > > I would take it for a drive and burn off the oil which apparently got in > your cylinders. > > - > ******************************* > Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org > Madison, Wisconsin, USA > ******************************* > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list or mailto:help@vwtype3.org >