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oil leak

Interesting.  My 16v finally broke the oil cooler-to-block adapter O-ring on Tuesday. (It had been leaking for a month)
 Large puddle in my drive and a tell-tale oil trail going about 1/2 mile to where the oil pressure light started blinking and the buzzer sounded off, telling me to check my oil pressure gage which said 'zero'.  (gage was reading normal when I pulled out of the driveway)
Uh-oh.

Make u-ey, coast home ( 90%downhill ), replace O-ring. Replace oil and coolant. All is well.
Note: To remove the oil cooler you have to first:
remove alternator
remove AC compressor
remove PS pump pulley
(did I already go through this scenario here?)
remove coolant lines

The old O-ring was hard-like-plastic.  No wonder it let go.

You should have received warning of low oil before significant damage occured.  But you didn't, and a "clanking" noise sounds terminal.  Wish there were better news....
 (The "good" news: only took one hour to remove all the junk and 1.5 hours to replace.)
Advice to others who go through this: have new belts handy if the old ones are even close to needing replacing.

Larry
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: scas660@netzero.com 
  To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org 
  Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2004 5:09 AM
  Subject: oil leak



  Please help

  My 86 scirocco (16V) has been running great until yesterday when I started it up and heard some fairly loud clanking noises. I looked under the hood and the noise was obvioulsy coming from the head area ("oh crap I think I blew my valves" was may first thought) then I looked under the car and saw a small puddle of oil and oil that spattered all around the oil filter area. Next I checked out the dip stick and hardly any oil was on it at all. Anybody know what this is all about? Is the oil cooler near that area and might that be the problem? I don't think I drove it in this condition long - I only noticed the sound yesterday - could there be severe damage? In NY there's snow around and its cold (I don't have a garage nor do I want to bring it to a shop if I don't have to)

  Thanks for any help - Steve

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