Thanks, list for the replies on this a couple weeks ago.  As was suggested, it turned out to indeed
be the "oil gallery plug".  From what I understand, this thing only very occasionally causes
problems.  Some engines (air-cooled?) have a smaller hole and the usual fix is to thread it and put
in a nice solid threaded plug.  But on others (my 1.9 for example), the hole is larger, nearly 1" &
less practical to thread.  The fix being beyond me, my mechanic (that I towed here to from the 1st
garage) found a frost plug from an american car that fit, banged it into place, then peened around
it to secure.  This made me $350cdn poorer, but Moby's still rollin'.  Least I didn't fry the
engine.

----- Original Message -----
From: "l p" <lphm@hotmail.com>
To: "Vanagon Mailing List" <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 9:34 PM
Subject: oil falls out of vanagon!

It's true!  It all fell out a little hole in the back!!

Anyway, recently stopped & noticed large pool of oil under car (several litres/quarts).  It just
happened apparently when parking & didn't lose oil while running, so didn't overheat or run dry or
anything like that.  No unusual noises, either.  On checking, couldn't get a good look at it, but
could reach up behind bumper/body in vicinity of below oil pump(?), there's something missing
leaving about a 1" diam hole.

Had her towed to local garage, they can't figure out the part that's missing (& they agree that will
probably have to drop the engine to replace it even if they could figure out what it's supposed to
be).

Anyone know what seems to have blown out from this 84 1.9 H2O engine??????

From a bad photocopy of a Bentley page, it seems like maybe this is the place for the 0.9 bar
pressure switch, but Bentley notes that this is for 1986 & later models only.

If you have any idea, let me know, thanks, the garage doesn't know what to do with her!

TIA,
Lloyd
84 1.9 Vgon "Moby"... still strugglin'