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Smelly oil, causes?



Sounds to me like you cooked the oil. My 1.8 15v runs 110 deg. and the water
right on the led. Maybe you need to look into the cooling system some.

Rick Alexander
'87 MKII Rolling Roc
'86 Cabbie
'81 "S" MKI G60 in progress
'80 MKI (Parts)
'73 Baja Challenge car
'65 Brubaker Box
'62 Tuff Tubb dune buggy

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeffrey Lowe" <scirocco16v_1986@yahoo.com>
To: "scirocco-L" <scirocco-L@scirocco.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 8:16 PM
Subject: Smelly oil, causes?


> I took my oil pan and oil pump off today to put in the
> new pump I bought due to the low oil pressure I've
> been seeing, around .5 bar at idle, and 1.5 bar at
> highway speeds, and the high oil temps @150 Celsius.
> When I dropped the pan the oil smelled pretty nasty,
> kind of burnt smell, didn't look unusual from any
> other oil change color wise, just smelled funny.
> So, do you think that I cooked the stuff a little too
> much? I have the standard mileage on the oil, around
> 3K. I didn't use anything unusual oil wise, Valvoline
> 20W-50 full synthetic. There was about 1/2 quart shy
> of the 4 that was suppose to be there, this I
> attribute to the crappy gasket on the pan, which I'm
> replacing with a rubber one. Engine has around 160,000
> miles on it. The engine has been running fine, no odd
> smells,no strange noises, no smoke from the exhaust,
> no loss of HP, just the high temps, oil @150, water
> between LED and white high mark.
>
> And as a side note are Schadek oil pumps worth a crap?
> Because that's what I bought to save $50 off OEM.
>
> Thanks,
>
> =====
> Jeff Lowe
> Garland, Texas
> '59 Euro Spec Beetle (Waiting it's turn for resto)
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