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Subject:Smells like fuel -- wet spot on cold head
From:Mike \"Rocket J Squirrel\" Elliott
Date:Thu, 21 Jun 2007 09:44:39 -0700

Checking the plugs on my 1.9l WBX (how do you easily get to the #1 plug,
anyway?) I noticed a wet gasoline-smelling spot on top of the driver
side cylinder head, under the injectors. The injector bits, including
their undersides, seem to be dry. The bolts holding the intake air
manifold* to the head were not tight. I've tightened them and will see
if things dry up.

The engine has not been run for a few days. Could fuel leak out of an
insufficiently tightened air manifold / head connection while the van is
just sitting?

*I can't find the name for that part in Bentley's p. 24.46. It's the
paired hoses that bring air from the intake air distributor to the heads.

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Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano
KG6RCR

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