Re:[T3] sumps the same?

[David Yaghoubian <goob@adelphia.net>]

At 05:20 PM 11/30/2005, Bob wrote:
> Yes, my dad clipped a manhole cover
> while on winter vacation earlier this 
> year. Ripped the oil sump plate half off, and dumped 3+ quarts of oil out
> in 
> seconds. :O  I had to send him a good plate and a new strainer so he
> could go back 
> to driving the car (there wasn't a good VW auto parts store near him). I
> have 
> the remains of the old sump here (was a Berg 1.5 qt sump), and it broke
> it up 
> pretty good. His car is also stock height, so using one on a lowered car
> is a 
> flip of the coin. If all you drive are nice smooth roads (something we
> don't 
> have here), then you could probably get away with using
> one.

That is horrific, although it's good to know a sump can be destroyed
without necessarily taking the block with it. My car is stock height in
the rear with 165s and a tad lowered in the front, running 155s. I think
even with a sump the lowest part of my car would be the sheet metal under
the spare tire up front (maybe 6-8in. clearance?)  and that has
never bottomed out. I do always drive on smooth roads, although once in a
while I'll encounter a brutal pothole, and regularly hit speed bumps and
train tracks. Hmmmm... many positives, and one major negative. Tough
call!!!

Dave Y.
68 square





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