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Subject:Fwd: 1981 2L Type IV Strainer Cleaning - Where Does the Rubber Washer Go?
From:Geoffrey Toye
Date:Fri, 23 Oct 2020 15:54:30 -0400

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From: Geoffrey Toye <geoffreytoye@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 3:24 PM
Subject: Re: 1981 2L Type IV Strainer Cleaning - Where Does the Rubber
Washer Go?
To: Eric Caron <ericcaron96@comcast.net>

Thanks Eric,

The motor was rebuilt 25k ago when the van was under the PO. Maybe it is
debris from the previous rebuild?

Geoff T

On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 3:14 PM Eric Caron <ericcaron96@comcast.net> wrote:

> Wow!
>
> That is strange.  My air cooled memory says just the threee.
>
> I wonder if it was on the outside with the crush washer and just stuck
> there.
>
> On my 1.9 I had a kind of plastic washer and I used it over and over for
> the 7 years I had the fan.  No leaks.  I’d kind of like to know what that
> was and where to get more!
>
> Best
>
> Eric Caron
>
>
>
> > On Oct 23, 2020, at 3:01 PM, Geoffrey Toye <geoffreytoye@GMAIL.COM>
> wrote:
> >
> > I am cleaning the oil strainer on a 2L Type IV motor in my 1981 Westie
> for
> > the first time (under my ownership).  I bought a gasket set that includes
> > the two large paper gaskets and the aluminum crush washer.  However,
> when I
> > took the strainer off, in addition to the three gaskets I have in the
> kit a
> > fourth rubber washer came out?  I am not sure where it came from but it
> > came out with the strainer itself.  Also, it's split and I assume it
> should
> > be replaced. Looking at the parts catalog I have I see no mention of
> it.  Any
> > ideas guys and girls where this goes?
>
>

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