Re: Reply to oil leak in bellows

[parkkj@orion.crd.ge.com (Keith Park)]

Toby and all..

THere is no seal on the pulley, just an oil slinger, what you were seeing it the
result of an overpressurized crankcase from a burned or galled piston
most likely, and most likely caused from an overworked engine on a hot day
trying to keep the A/C going.

Keith

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>From type-3-errors@umich.edu Wed Dec 31 10:48:16 1997
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 97 07:37:00 PST
From: Toby Erkson <Toby_Erkson@ccm.jf.intel.com>
To: Type-3@umich.edu
Subject: Reply to oil leak in bellows
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The oil could be coming from the pulley seal.  When I was at the junk yard 
snagging some A/C parts from a T3 I saw that the poor engine had a 
star-shaped pattern of oil emanating from the case where the pulley bolts 
to the crank.  Just a thought.
     Toby Erkson, air_cooled_nut@pobox.com
     '72 VW Squareback 1.6L bored and stroked to 2.0L
     '75 Porsche 914 1.8L, ORPCA member
     Portland, Oregon, http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/8501/

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> My squareback has been leaking oil pretty bad lately.  one odd thing is
> that oil seems to be leaking down from the bellows and falling onto the
> middle piece of my extractor system.  Makes for a bad smell on the road.
> My bellows has some rips in it (It is next on my list to fix) but I don't
> know why oil would drip down from it.  Any insight is welcome.


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