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Subject:Re: question of oil level
Date:Thu, 29 Sep 1994 21:30:16 -0800

At 23:03 9/29/94 -0500, martha rubin wrote:
>Anyone want to theorize all the bad things that could happen if
>you add TOO MUCH oil to your vanagon/bus?

I don't have to theorize. My '59 Pickup (with a '65 engine) had over 4
quarts of oil in the sump when I bought it. Of course, a lot of it was all
over the engine compartment by the time I got home! :) 

I gave it an oil change, and it runs like a top now.

Bob

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