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Check and make sure your breather parts are clear and correct for your application, I had a leak in the Notch engine in the rear a while back that turned out to be a PCV valve in the late breather I was using restricting the airflow, I gutted it and no more oil leaks (till the latest bell housing issue) Keith Top Notch Restorations topnotch@nycap.rr.com 71 Squareback 65 Notchback "El Baja Rojo" 65 Squareback "Eggcrate" 87 golf "Winterat" 93 RX7 "Redstur" -----Original Message----- From: John Jaranson [mailto:jaransonT3@comcast.net] Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2006 7:25 PM To: T3 List Subject: [T3] Sophy's Invasion Shake-down Run Last Saturday I needed to travel back home to Minnesota for my Gram's funeral and decided the 1700 mile round-trip run would be a good shake-down for Sophy before the Invasion. Besides, if you have to travel without air-conditioning (the Escort wagon's quick working long ago), you might as well go in style. The good news... Sophy run great the whole trip without any major issues. Averaged better than 25 mpg and cruised at 70-80 mph the whole way. She even performed well in the huge thunderstorm I drove through on the way home last night. I had a blast. The issues I discovered and need to address before the Invasion trip..... On the way back at the first gas stop, I noticed an alarmingly large puddle of oil under the right side of her engine. I had occasionally gotten a few small drips on that side during daily driving but nothing like this. Only source for the leak I could find was the stock oil bath air cleaner. I removed the air cleaner and it was over-full by a 1/3 of a quart or so. I know I didn't over-fill it during the last tune-up. I dumped some out to get it back down to the correct level and wiped up the tin below the drain hole in the outer ring of the air cleaner. Didn't notice any more oil leaks til I got home last night after another 700 miles or so. Just checked the air cleaner again and it was back to being over-full. The only explanation I have is that I am getting excessive crankcase pressure at high speeds and it is getting blown in through the breather. I have the hose on that connects the breather to the air-cleaner. Any other explanations? What would cause the high crankcase pressure? The engine runs strong (70mph at 4000rpm, 26 mpg or so). I am going to do a compression check. Any thing else I should look for? I need to swap in the 12V wipre system that I have. Rain-X works great, but there are still times the wipers would be nice. The speedo cable or the speedo itself started really screaming during the last leg of the trip. I ended up reaching under and unscrewing the cable and it went quiet. Of course, no speed or odometer after that. Will the cable from a 70 work in my 66? Is it more likely the cable or the speedo? It did this when I first started driving her and stopped after squirting some Kroil down the cable housing. I also need to do a little water leak detective work. The driver;s side floor got pretty wet in the driving rain storm I drove through last night. I thought I had all the holes in the floors sealed up....maybe I missed on. Might also be the windshield seal, but I don't think that is likely. There are a few other minor things like the light for the tach and the highbeam indicator are out. I want to add a powerpoint for a phone charger and maybe throw in the oil pressure gage that I have so I can be more like Keith. <G> All-in-all, I am very happy with her performance and am looking forward to the Invasion trip. Only about a month to go........ Later, John Jaranson '66 Square (Sophy) '70 Fasty (Jane 2 - Type 3 Lead Sled wannabe) '71 Fasty (Jane -parts car due to rust) http://mywebpages.comcast.net/carartbyjohn/ http://mywebpages.comcast.net/jaransonT3/jaransonT3/ http://mywebpages.comcast.net/jaransonT3/2006Invasion/ http://mywebpages.comcast.net/jaransonT3/notavwclub/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~