[s-cars] Subject: Re: Valve cover baffle?

[chris chambers]

There is a discussion on the baffle taking place on Audiworld.com

http://forums.audiworld.com/s4s6/msgs/226051.phtml




--- Brooke Fairbanks <bfairbanks at fnbbarron.com> wrote:

> Maybe it is in there to help distribute splashed oil to the cam
> chain, I
> dunno, but I not going to replace it.  I'm glad it didn't decide to
> disintegrate while in the cover and into the motor...
> 
> Brooke Fairbanks 
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Winter [mailto:tom at freeskier.com] 
> Sent: Monday, June 02, 2008 3:07 PM
> To: s-car-list at audifans.com
> Cc: bfairbanks at fnbbarron.com
> Subject: Subject: Re: [s-cars] Valve cover baffle?
> 
> 
> On 6/2/08 1:00 PM, "s-car-list-request at audifans.com"
> <s-car-list-request at audifans.com> wrote:
> 
> > the frail & brittle oil baffle that lives under the oil cap fell to
> the
> floor
> and disintegrated... ...into hundred tiny plastic shards.
> 
> Hmmm, I don't see a baffle under the oil cap of my '95 S6 Avant so
> either it
> never came on this particular car or it's looooong gone.
> 
> Take your pick, but I'd guess that if you are careful when changing
> the oil
> and are not throwing debris into the engine, you won't miss this
> baffle.
> Others may disagree.
> 
> Tom '95 S6 Avant (sans baffle)
> 
> 
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