RE: [T3] Oil leak mystery

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

<x-charset iso-8859-1>Mine is clean!  Of course, she's not a daily driver...

Still, after many years of living on a DUSTY dirt road, there wasn't much
caked on (air passages not blocked).  I can see where an oil leak would be
cause for more concern.  Back when I was younger and I would clean the car I
would hose water UP into the cylinder area to clean the engine.  Never
caused any problems that I was aware of, though doing it when the engine was
hot probably wasn't a good idea (I was little, I liked the steam).  I still
do this but now the engine is cool when I wash her.

    Toby Erkson
    air_cooled_nut@pobox.com

>-----Original Message-----
>...
>> Of course this idea goes a bit adrift if the fan has pulled in loads of
dust
>> which has mixed with the oil to make a paste. If the dust was a problem,
I'd
>> also be a bit concerned that it would build up on the cylinder fins,
reducing
>> the cooling as well.
>
>Right, but I think we'd be hard pressed to find a car where 
>there was not 
>significant dust and dirt in there.

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