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<x-charset windows-1255>I spoke to a friend of mine about this problem today. He apparently spent his youth building VW engines for a living ,and has owned some Beetles. He's helped me work on my car sometimes. Anyway, he doesn't agree with the idea that fuel is leaking through the carbs into the sump. The only way this could happen, he says, is if my piston rings are worn, which he does not believe to be the case, as the engine doesn't burn oil. If petrol was leaking from the carbs, it would accumulate in the cylinder. Some of you have sounded as if this is what you think too. This accumulation of petrol would cause pressure in the cylinders which would burst the head, bend a rod, or whatever, as has been mentioned in previous postings. However, there is no doubt that petrol did find it's way into the sump.The oil that I drained absolutely reeked of it, and was very thin and runny. The only other way that petrol could get into the case is via the fuel pump. Can I conclude that this changing the fuel pump would solve the problem? If so, I would really like an original VW Type 3 fuel pump, rather than another Brosol one. Does anyone have one? Is my (and his) reasoning correct, and is there any other possibility we haven't thought of? Regards, Daniel Baum 1969 Type 34 automatic http://www.qldesign.com/type34 ------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <type3-off@vwtype3.org> For more help, see http://vwtype3.org/list/ </x-charset>