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Re: [T3] Fuel in Valve cover
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<br><div><div>On Jun 30, 2008, at 11:50 AM, Robert Hornstein wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; ">Fuel in Valve cover sinceÊI haven't followed this from the beginning.ÊHas anyone thought to ask about the mileage on the engine? When fuel and or fuel mixture gets byÊwornÊrings there is some oil getting polluted by gasoline.ÊThe fuel rinses the oil from the cylinder walls getting into the oil. If the engineÊis freshly built were the piston ring gaps staggered?ÊÊ</span></blockquote><br></div><div>The engine was recently rebuilt (i put it in the car spring of 2007) and has less than 100 miles on it. I am certain that the rings were in fact installed correctly (i.e. with the gaps staggered).</div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Gill Sans'; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div>matthewNstanfield</div><div>1970 VWfastBack</div><div>mansfield, OHio</div><div>home.earthlink.net/~ikkabod70/VWfastBack</div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></body></html>
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