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On 22 Jun 2003 at 12:06, Gary Gamboa wrote: > I was driving from Cape Cod to Quincy, MA, about 70 miles. When I got about 30 > miles into the trip, I stopped and noticed smoke coming from under the right > side and through the right vent. When I looked under the car, the smoke seemed > to come from the lower HE. There was also about 10-20 oil drops on the ground. > This oil smoking has happened twice so far, between these 2 occurences, I have > made numerous short trips with no oil smoking. Why didn't this happen on those > small trips? I suspect that this happened because there's a bit of oil dripping out of your head gaskets and you only really notice this when the engine gets warm enough for it to leak a bit faster and get in to the HE where it can smoke. You probably just need to get new, or better, head gaskets. > I had just changed the oil, and the guy who did it mentioned that 2 of the oil > housing bolts were moving freely. He also mentioned there was a kit to replace > these bolts cuase they frequently do this. Does anyone know of this kit? Oil housing? Did he mean the sump plate? I don't know of a kit to fix stripped sump plate studs, but I have a jig I made to pilot the drill and tap to fix these with Helicoils. These sump plate studs are often damaged by overtightening or tightening with dirt in the threads, or by aftermarket nuts which are not tapped deep enough. Leaving the copper washers off is also a problem, because this means that the cap nuts have to drive on the studs farther and if they bottom out the studs will want to turn. This is a rather fragile area of the engine and requires care if it is going to last a long time. -- ******************************* Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, Wisconsin, USA ******************************* ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org