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Re: 20vt Oil Leak



>  When idling it didn't seem to be leaking. I'm thinking that
> it has a leak in a place that allows the oil to accumulate externally
> and when the car tilted up in the driveway, the oil ran off quickly.

My ole 5kt used to leak oil at the cork cam cover gasket, onto the
intake manifold where it would build up - until I stopped hard, when it
would spill forward onto the (usually by then) hot turbocharger.  Cool
clouds of black smoke would billow forth from the grille and RF wheel
well...

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Huw Powell

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