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<x-charset ISO-8859-1>Blue smokepuffs during deceleration by closing the throttle, I think indicates worn valve guides. The intake vacuum raises high while decelerating and the oil gets sucked in through the valve guides. Am I right here? If so, Keith is right - thats no kritical problem (only unpleasant for the cars behind you... ;-) ) An engine with this symptoms might still have a long lifetime left. /Karl-Olov Sandin '73 squareback, Sweden Keith P. wrote: >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 ------------------------------------------------------------------- List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list or mailto:help@vwtype3.org </x-charset>