[tcb] Re: OK, about that oil leak
- From: Steve Chamberlain <steveraychamberlain@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 05:48:47 -0500
Yes, it was the oil pressure sending unit, a $4 part that screws in the case
under the diistributor. He bought a new one from Jack. Proble, solved
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 9:39 PM, shirley hall <vwbuslady@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> okay, this is all very familiar, really. at the classic, someone asked
> me about an oil leak. all over the engine compartment, thought to be from
> the pully area on a type I motor. the guy was from st louis and did not
> want to go back with the thing leaking oil that bad. for some reason, he
> thought he had a sand seal on the engine. he asked could it be changed
> without pulling the engine and get him back to st louis. feelers went out.
> dick wakefield said he had done it and could help. dick went and looked and
> determined that is was not the sand seal pulley that was throwing oil but
> from something else. did not find out what the "other" thing was. point
> is...guy from st lois thought the same thing denis is decribing, maybe and
> some else looked and said no it's not the pulley but some thing else. what
> did dick see that said, no, it's not blowing oil from behind the pulley,
> it's something else? i was too busy to find out the details. terry, got any
> ideas? sound similar to denis' problem. just wondering, could be totally
> wrong.
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> --- On *Wed, 4/27/11, Denis Dodson <coocoo@xxxxxxx>* wrote:
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> From: Denis Dodson <coocoo@xxxxxxx>
> Subject: [tcb] Re: OK, about that oil leak
> To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Wednesday, April 27, 2011, 5:24 PM
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> The question was “is there a seal?” Chuck kept talking about my sand
> seal. Actually John was right: just the slinger ring.
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> Don’t be fanning the flames of a mud fight with me and Chuck, I got enough
> trouble in my family as it is.
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> *From:* tcb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:tcb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On
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> *Sent:* Wednesday, April 27, 2011 3:22 PM
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> *Subject:* [tcb] Re: OK, about that oil leak
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> Say it. . .Chuck was right.
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> Sent from my BlackBerry®
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> *From: *"Denis Dodson" <coocoo@xxxxxxx>
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> *Date: *Wed, 27 Apr 2011 15:18:15 -0500
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> *Subject: *[tcb] OK, about that oil leak
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> After this discussion and a call to an expert I have deduced that there is
> no seal between the slinger ring and the crank pulley. I have a sand seal
> there but it is, maybe, 8 years old and they can get a groove cut in them or
> can start spinning with shaft and needs to be replaced. Apparently a real
> seal is “machined” in, which I am certain mine is not.
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> As Robb said my breather may be involved or I ran too much oil or about a
> hundred other reasons.
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> As soon as the freakin’ rail stops, we have had more than 10” in four days,
> and I clean up the flood damage, I will get at Murray’s engine and find out
> what is going on.
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