Re: [T3] White exhaust? Oil consumption

["Keith Park" <topnotch@nycap.rr.com>]

<x-charset iso-8859-1>I keep the oil near the top, remember if your a quart low at the bottom line
you only have 1.5 left unless your using a sump,  This is very little and
will really starve the engine on turns.  Keep it Full!

And BTW, some of my engines would go through a quart in 500 miles,
sometimes, not others and still lived long lives.  My current engine uses
very little oil sometimes and others, like when I have to lift off the gas
alot on the highway it uses more... and as ive mentioned before foggs the
town on decelleration.  Its done this for 40K or so and the compression is
fine so Im really not worried a bit.

oil is cheap!

Keith


----- Original Message -----
From: Mike Wodkowski <wodkowski@mac.com>
To: Type3 <type3@vwtype3.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 12:37 PM
Subject: Re: [T3] White exhaust? Oil consumption


> on 10/30/01 10:31 AM, Jim Adney at jadney@vwtype3.org wrote:
>
> > On 30 Oct 2001, at 1:08, Mike Wodkowski wrote:
> >
> >> OK, so last week I set my valves, .004 intakes, .006 exhaust.
> >> I noticed Russ said he set his at a loose .004 and a tight .006
> >> That was after I did mine, which were set to a tight .004 and a tight
.006
> >> I haven't had a chance to loosen the intakes yet.
> >
> > This really get pretty subjective quickly. You don't ever want to adjust
the
> > valves to a "tight" anything, because then you don't really know what
you
> > have. To me at least, "tight" would mean that I've actually started to
> > compress the valve spring, and once you do this you can't tell by how
much.
> > So a "tight" .004 could be .002 or .000 which would definitely bad.
>
>
> Thanks for the advice. I'll reset the valves this weekend! By tight, I
meant
> that I was setting them so that the .004 gauge would go in, but .005
> wouldn't. But I think I'll loosen up on that a bit.
>
> Regarding oil consumption, I'll have to keep an eye peeled.
> I DO have a leak somewhere, and I'll have to trace it.
>
> Just for confirmation's sake: I've always been told that as long as the
oil
> is anywhere above the low mark and below the high mark of the dipstick,
all
> is well. Comments?
>
>
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