[Vwdiesel] 1978 VW camper rear brake drum plugs

[LBaird119 at aol.com]

In a message dated 5/12/2010 1:25:04 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
tgott at hotmail.com writes:

> Does any one know where I can get the rubber plugs for a 1978 VW camper 
> rear brake drums. A friend of mine had the left rear brake freeze up in this 
> cold weather and I got looking and saw both sides are missing the plugs to 
> help keep the water and dirt out. 

  Think this should be the right part number:  113-609-163 says there 
are 6 total.

> 
> 
> On another topic, my brothers oil pressure gauge line broke. It was the 
> manual not the electric oil pressure gauge. So he didn't notice the blood 
> trail behind him till he pulled in his shop coming home from work. I told him 
> to drain the rest of the oil out to see what he had left and not to start 
> it. It might have had a quarter of a quart in it. It was running fine going 
> to the final spot. I told him to take a few of the main bearings off to 
> check for damage there as the is the first problem on a CAT engine on oil 
> starvation is a main bearing getting spun. What else should he look at. He 
> would rather replace and check what is needed then put a hole in the block from 
> a spun main bearing or another component. Anyone else run one of these out 
> of oil. It is a 1980 VW truck with the newer 12 MM head bolt 1.6NA engine. 
> 
> Thanks
> Travis Gottschalk
> 

  If his oil light didn't come on then however low, he likely had oil 
pressure/flow.  The fact that it was still running out when he 
pulled in kinda indicates that.  If a rod wasn't knocking then he's 
95% likely fine.  It's usually a rod that will fail first  #3 I think.
     Loren