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Re: Smoking 5KCSTQ ??

To: Steven Buchholz <steveb@newkla.kla.com>
Subject: Re: Smoking 5KCSTQ ??
From: Michael Spiers <mikes@specnet.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 1995 10:05:29 -0500
Cc: quattro@coimbra.ans.net
In-Reply-To: Steven Buchholz <steveb@newkla.kla.com> "Re: Smoking 5KCSTQ ??" (Dec 12, 1:33pm)
References: <9512122133.AA09347@newkla.kla.com>
Sender: quattro-owner@coimbra.ans.net

> Misinformation correction: You will *not* dump oil out of the engine of
> the 5k when the filler cap is removed.  There is a cover over the cam that
> keeps the cam from spraying oil through the open hole.  The worst thing
> that should happen would be the venting of oil fumes.

Au Contraire!!!  Maybe all turbo's have the shield, but not all 5000's do!  My
'84 has zero shield, you take the oil filler cap off & you're starin' at the
camshaft lobes!

-- 
-Mike
mikes@specnet.com
mks107@psuvm.psu.edu
87 5000CS TQ
84 5000S (2,000 miles away and a mile high)
90 80 (sibling's mode of transportation I get lynched into working on)

References:
- Re: Smoking 5KCSTQ ??
  - From: steveb@newkla.kla.com (Steven Buchholz)

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