>
> Mark:
>
> Why they MADE it this way is still something of a mystery to me, but the why
> of needing to replace it is that it simply deteriorates. It's plastic, it
> gets clogged, melted, and non-sealing in pretty short order, and there seems
> no way to keep it really doing its job more than a year or so. I got a car
> once that had had one on there for over ten years, and to call it a cap atall
> was a stretch. The best you could say about it was that it usually sort of
> sat on top of the crankcase cover, and at that point its chief job seemed to
> be letting most of the oil out of the engine.
>
> Cheers!
>
> ckr
>
That is what my oil cap is doing. Maybe I'll get a new one today. Thanks!
- -Mark
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