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Subject:Re: Vanagon Project FS
From:Steve Delanty
Date:Sat, 15 May 2004 07:18:20 -0700

At 10:19 PM 5/14/2004, Michael Brenner wrote:
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>ceremonial draining of the oil. While performing the initial task, an
>interesting thing happened. While the motor was only started a handful of
>times and probably less that 5 miles on the reassembled engine, instead of
>the oil being relatively clean, what drained out instead was a whole lot of
>gasoline. I mean a lot. Maybe about 2 gallons. Something is pumping gasoline
>at a high rate into the crankcase somehow. Does anyone in the digital stream
>have an idea's?
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Fuel pressure regulator with a blown diaghram, or maybe a REALLY leaky
injrector.

Steve
EJ22 -> '86 Westy "Escape Pod"