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Subject:Re: main seal
From:Michael aka ECHO
Date:Sun, 7 Oct 2001 15:04:16 -0700

Easy to answer,
80% of the time mechanics who don't know squat about VWs, they
think they do, but alas... Another thing.. they tend to follow
damn auto-part stores with their unreliable Unix based parts
library. This leads to the wrong seal or some sort of universal
crappy rubber thingy with metal around it.
Mike
--- patrick paul clerkin <clerkin@STUDENTS.UIUC.EDU> wrote:
> I have been reading a lot of mails about people having trouble
> after
> mechanics replaced their main seals (oil flowing everywhere.)
> Is this a
> common problem, or do these people simply have mechanics who
> don't know
> what they are doing?
>
> Thanks,
> Patrick

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