If you can run a water-cooled motor without coolant for 10 minutes, I'm sure
you can run an air-cooled Beetle motor at idle for at least as long.

Did you never fool around with motors when you were younger?  Hot rod? Drag
race? Road race?

On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 7:06 PM, David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net> wrote:

> At 09:48 PM 10/26/2009, Jake de Villiers wrote:
>
>> What do you mean by "before the engine slags down"  ?
>>
>
> Melts.  Or does that belt *not* drive the cooling fan?  I'm comparatively
> Beetle-ignorant, although I had an early lurching experience with one fitted
> with a racing clutch.
>
> d
>
>

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