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rbowman

On 06/17/2019 07:09 PM, wrote:
Was it burning the oil or just leaking? Those push rod tubes were
famous for dripping. There were a few tricks to plug the leak but the
right fix was to pull the jugs and put in new tubes. On an old VW,
dropping the engine was a 2 hour thing and more like an hour the
second time you did it. Two guys could easily hold it or one guy (me)
and a floor jack.

Might have been an urban legend but I remember stories about people
repowering their burned out transporters with the midnight auto supply
technique.