Russ Wilson writes:
> BTW, Just as it is impossible to keep the radiator full (as discussed in a
> previous thread), I have found is does no good to try to keep the dampers
> as full as the manuals recommend. As long as the oil is over the top of
> the plunger when the engine is off, there is enough. If the resevoir is
> filled per specs, some of the oil quickly finds its way to the top of the
> air filter cases, etc. That's one oil leak that is easy to fix!
I was instructed, when I took possession of my 'B, that "if you can hear
a sucking sound when the plunger is removed, the oil level is fine".
When I try to fill them, they simply run over through the little
breather hole in the top, and my carbs get dirty...
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Todd Mullins
todd@nutria.nrlssc.navy.mil On the lovely Mississippi (USA) Coast
'74 MGB Tourer with 20W-50 in the HIF4s
"A life lived in fear is a life half lived."
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