I find it hard to believe that there really are air cooled vans out there.
I thought you guys were joking.

Mike
Maybe I'll try the Guinness trick.

----- Original Message -----
From: Tobin Copley <tobin.copley@ubc.ca>
To: Jason Willenbrock <pooncerelli@HOTMAIL.COM>; Mike Miller
<mwm@LANSET.COM>; <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2000 4:49 PM
Subject: Re: gas consumption and guiness in the oil

> At 3:25 PM -0800 3/8/00, Mike Miller wrote:
> >That's the worst Guinness in the world.  Means you got big problems, as
in a
> >busted engine.  That's water mixed in the oil and emulsified.  Bad ju ju.
> >
> >In order of price, blown head gasket, cracked head, cracked block.
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: Jason Willenbrock <pooncerelli@HOTMAIL.COM>
> >  >this is an 82 aircooled with a
> >  > rebuild of about 40k on her.
>
> Mike: Um, no.  Jason's got an air-cooled engine.  I think it's been a
> while since Mike's had an air-cooled.  Somebody hand him a spliff,
> quick!
>
> Jason: don't sweat bullets on me, man.  Everything's copacetic.
> Truck on over to the air-cooled list archives at
> http://www.type2.com/ and search on "yellow goo in oil", oil and
> emulsified, some such.  Try it out, you'll get hits with a few
> descriptions I'm sure.  (The Type2 archive search engine is a
> beautiful thing, BTW, very very good).
>
> You've got a bit of water in your oil.  No biggie.  Engine's sat for
> a while, huh?  Condensation inside the crank case is how it got in
> there.  If the oil hasn't been changed since coming out of winter
> storage, change it out, man.  If it's new, take your ride for a good
> long highway run and evaporate that water right outta there.  Go
> someplace.  Search for America.
>
> My old aircooleds used to do that all the time, especially when it
> was cool and damp outside.  Short driving runs where the engine can't
> heat up much before it shuts down and cools off adds to the problem.
> It creates a condensation *cycle*, dig?  The foam doesn't taste
> anything like Guinness.  Or so I hear.  There was this, um... guy I
> knew who tried it once.  Not me.
>
> Leave the head gasket worries to those waterboxer masochists.  You
> got an *air* *cooled* man!  You got it made!  Brother!
>
> T.
>
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> Tobin Copley   Bowen Island, BC, Canada              tobin.copley@ubc.ca
>
> '82 westy 1.6L NA diesel ("Stinky")
> '97 son Russell                                   =============
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