Tom, at those temperatures you will never get a leak down.

I lived in Alaska for 30 years - part of the time with an '85 GL
Vanagon. Never had lifter leakdown in winter. Only in summer. Engine
would cool down to quickly for the lifter leakdown to occur I would guess.

Regards,

John Rodgers
88 GL Driver

tom ring wrote:

>  Yes, I was a bad boy not to start it,
>but it was below 15 or 20F for the whole time, so there wasn't any corrosion
>going on anywhere.  And it had fresh oil in it.  And the snow around it was 4
>feet deep.
>
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