locoqueso wrote:I want to schedule a full day this year to focus on that oil leak. Thanks Colin!
Ohhhhhh myyyyyyyyy.
Let's call this out as my second call-back in the Itinerant Air-Cooled story. First one was misszora on June 27, 2008, where my razor blade cylinder head resurfacing ran out of time (we got to LuckyLab by 7 PM under its own power), but there sure was time to go back and do it over . . .
Here, we have an oil leak that was addressed by a very hygienic front main seal replacement + o-ring.
October 18, 2010, we did a clutch replacement which included the flywheel seal.
April 28, 2011, he PMs me with "oil drips when running!" We yakked about orange vs brown seals.
June 16, 2011, we replace the seal.
But, "I still have the heavy oil leak that developed after we replaced the clutch two years ago."
February 20th, 2012 (4:18am - someone is clearly losing sleep over this)
"I still have the heavy oil leak that developed after we replaced the clutch two years ago."
August 23, 2012, we replace the o-ring and the seal.
2013 seems quiescent . . .
February 25, 2014, it is I who seems to be waking up with oil on my mind,
"You shall be added. How is your front main seal? We ask these things . . . .
Colin"
No mention in the reply file in my Dossier Of All Customers Communications Ever . . .
We had a lovely distracted appointment on August 19, 2014 distracted by bucking:
. . . and he wrote on the forum post,
The hesitation/bucking symptoms now seem to be about the same, maybe slightly better, with my cog adjustments (total of 5 notches leaner than Colin's last adjustment). The engine also stalled twice as I slowed for stop signs. By this time it was getting too warm outside to monkey around so the bus has been parked with no further adjustments.
Thank you for your time and expertise Colin. I appreciate it!
and I choked on my Panera cinnamon roll.
Now he isn't even PM corresponding with me . . . on the initial interest post, he writes,
Postby locoqueso » Sat Feb 21, 2015 8:18 pm
Amskeptic wrote:
You and I need to make a crisp list of things to do. Then we do them. Then you pay me.
Then I come back the next day and I/we drivedrivedrivedrive and dare your car not to run splendidly. It is a must a MUST that I KNOW that your car is running SPLENDIDLY. Hundred miles out and a hundred miles back. Dust the dust off the engine, wash the windows and then we drive again. I am becoming a less late kinda old man.
Creakin
That works for me. The bus hasn't left the garage since the last wax and it is a little dusty. I'll take what ever dates fit the schedule.
Oh ouch. But we have a victorious visit on June 9th after scaring the little children in the neighborhood with our slow driving u-turns, we have chased down that ugly little TS-2 intermittent connection, and the bucking is well and truly eradicated.
June 12th, he wrotes, "I should say that I’ve only been able to drive my bus 20 miles in 2 years" as he celebrates a 100 mile test drive. Then he puts down a newly energized,
My goal for 2016 IAC Visit: Resolve heavy oil leak (main seal?)
Do you think this is a call-back, on the house?
Colin
BobD - 78 Bus . . . 112,730 miles
Chloe - 70 bus . . . 217,593 miles
Naranja - 77 Westy . . . 142,970 miles
Pluck - 1973 Squareback . . . . . . 55,600 miles
Alexus - 91 Lexus LS400 . . . 96,675 miles