On Sat, 23 Jun 2001, Mark Gabel wrote: > Well, I'd ask you not to laugh but go ahead. > > When I was adding a half quart of oil to my 89 GTi 16v, I forgot to replace > the cap. Well, I'd like to try to force myself to believe that it came loose > on its own, but when I parked at the BART station in the morning and popped > the hood to inspect the cause of some mysterious blue smoke the cap was > sitting nicely on the manifold, mocking me. > > Anyway, as you have probably guessed, there is a huge oil mess in the lower > side of my engine compartment. I'd like to assess the damage. > > * rubber hoses-- some have some oil on them. should I replace soon? > * how should i go about cleaning this? is steam engine cleaning an option? >
You think YOU have an oil mess... let me tell you about an oil mess. :) One of the hoses popped off of my oil cooler on the FREEWAY... and dumped 3 fresh quarts of mobil one through my radiator and on to my motor! (yeah, only 3... luckily I got it before it pumped all of it out.) Woo... that three hours sitting by the side of the freeway will teach me to check those hose clamps. I wouldn't worry too much about it... steam cleaning would definitely be nice. Some simple green and one of those cheezy carwashes would probably work ok as a substitute, too. Just make sure you cover the distributor and any other electrical stuff that really sticks out with some plastic bags and leave the car running while you do it. _____________ List Sponsor: http://www.netsville.com To remove yourself from this list, send mail to [email protected] with 'unsubscribe a2_16v' in the body of your message See us on the web at http://www.a2-16v.com Visit the 16V Homepage at http://www.gti16v.org
