The oil is getting flung up by the flywheel.

Dennis

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From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On Behalf
Of Shawn Wright
Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2003 12:23 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Strange oil leak @ starter mount?

Tonight I noticed another in a series of strange and not-so-good things
while crawling under our '88 Westy (funny how you rarely notice *good*
things this way...), anyway - I saw oil drips on the lower starter
mounting
bolt.

The van developed a *very* slow oil leak about the time I put in Amsoil
gear and engine oil two years ago. Prior to this it did not leak a drop
in 5
years, but since the leak was very slow, and I assumed was engine oil,
not
gear oil, I ignored it. The leak was from the engine/bellhousing area,
dripping onto the exhaust header clamp plate, so it could be engine or
trans I guess.

But now the oil drip on the starter bolt has me wondering - how could
oil
leak up that high, and if it did, it must be the transmission, right?
Very
strange. Has anyone seen this before?

Shawn Wright
http://Zuiko.sls.bc.ca/swright
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