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Re: Oil Leakage/Consumption

To: Dan Hughes <Dan_Hughes@troweprice.com>
Subject: Re: Oil Leakage/Consumption
From: Marc Steinberg <marc@crl.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 09:27:01 -0700 (PDT)

On Thu, 12 Sep 1996, Dan Hughes wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> The other day I ask a question and, maybe, because of the way I presented it,
> the question received no replies.  I was trying to get a feel for how much oil
> MG users need to put in their cars. Mileage/amount, leaking/burning?  I
> haven't had a car burn or leak oil in many years and I'm just tring to get a

About a quart every few hundred miles, and it's mostly leaking...through 
the head gasket, through the side seals, through the oil pan seal -- you 
name it, if it's supposed to be sealed, it leaks.  Someday I'll do the 
gaskets, but so long as I keep dumping oil in, there doesn't seem t be 
any hurry.  She holds 60-75 psi at speed as long as I'm careful to check 
it every other fillup or so.


-- Marc

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