RE: Oil Leak/2.0 Conv.

["Chris Chemidlin" <spredhaus@hotmail.com>]

HEY!
My GLi is doing the same thing.
One of my bonehead friends went to move my car in a hurry, (on new years 
eve...COLD!) started it, and FLOORED it. The motor didn't warm up at 
all...

Now the motor drops LOTS of oil while its warm... When it just sits 
there, it stops.   I gotta do some digging to see what it is this 
weekend...

>
>	How about, it got REAL cold, and the gasket on the oil pan
>shrank enough to allow the oil out, and then it heated back up enough 
to
>seal the gap again?  Always check the simplest (cheapest) possible
>problems first.
>
>-WileyC
>1984 Red 8v
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From:	Chris [SMTP:bodenlos@ucsub.Colorado.EDU]
>> Sent:	Tuesday, January 05, 1999 2:51 PM
>> To:	scirocco-l@scirocco.org
>> Subject:	Oil Leak/2.0 Conv.  
>> 
>> My 16v is covered and parked in my roomate's driveway in Colorado
>> while I'm home for Christmas. On the phone, she mentioned that my car
>> had
>> leaked a *lot* of oil on her driveway, and then stopped leaking. My
>> car
>> doesn't leak oil, so I'm assuming the worst. It got extremely cold
>> after I
>> left, and nobody has been driving it. I can't think of too many 
things
>> that would cause all of my oil to leak out except possibly a cracked
>> block, or broken freeze bolts. Any ideas? 
>> 	If it is the block, what's involved in replacing it with a 16v
>> 2.0 block? I think this may have been discussed recently, but.. 
>> 
>> Chris Bodenlos
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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                       CHRIS CHEMIDLIN

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