Re: Oil cap leakage...

["Jay D. Bichanich" <jaybich@earthlink.net>]

Ben,

Keep your cap and just get a new donut shaped gasket.

Just replaced the gasket on mine and it's dry as a bone around the cap now.

Gasket should be less than a buck.

Jay Bichanich
86.5 Scirocco 16V Red (Original owner)


Ben Patterson wrote:

> Hey all -
>
>         I've got a slow leak coming from the oil cap on the engine
> block and unless I'm on it at least once a week, some of the oil
> finds it's way to the timing belt and this is not good. Anyways,
> anybody have an extra cap around (that seals tighter than mine) and
> is it a good bet that replacing the cap will fix the problem?
>
>                                 Ben Patterson, 86' 16v
>
> P.S. Chung' and I were looking at the beastie last night and pulled
> the rain tray off and there was enough organic matter in there to
> grow food for a small 3rd world country. Naaaaasty.
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