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Anyone Know how this works?
Posted: Tue May 03, 2005 10:02 pm
by vwbill
Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 6:35 am
by raygreenwood
It bolts onto the bottom of your engine in place of the steel cover under your oil strainer. It should come with a piece of tube that extends the pipe in teh center of that bell shaped baffel inside of your case, that is attached to the pcik-up tube. It simply puts the oil tube down at a lower height so it cannot ever easily have air slosh over the end. I think Jake makes a mod that is similar on certain engines he builds. Ray
Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 10:09 am
by Bowman74
Ahh, the tuna can. Bill,these are really used for cars that do a lot of sharp cornering where you are worried about your sump going dry. If you are AutoXing your type-4 they are a good buy. I use one on my 2.0 914. You can buy them new from Pelican Parts (see the Weltmeister oil trap).
Http://www.pelicanparts.com/catalog/sho ... htm#item14
Edit to add: One more thing, they hang down off the bottom of your engine in place of the normal oil drain. If you hit this on anything or catch it on anything... well bad stuff will happen.
Thanks,
Kevin