RE: Green-light-on saga, chapter 4

["Erkson, Toby" <toby.erkson@intel.com>]

What's with the plastic pieces?  Parts from the stock oil 
breather?  Coke build-up (or does this dissolve in hot oil)?  
Do you think they are plugging up any passages or have you 
dissected your oil filters to see if they have caught any more 
of this material?
   Toby Erkson
   air_cooled_nut@pobox.com  <-- Please use this address for email
   '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/

>-----Original Message-----
>     I pulled off the oil drain plate and the strainer on the '69 last
>night.  Found a couple of little pieces of harder black plastic-like
>stuff--a couple on the drain plate (the "good" side of the 
>strainer) and
>one chunk inside the strainer itself (on the "bad" side), ready to get
>sucked up by the pump.