Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 05:43:32 -0800 (PST) From: Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org> To: Olaf Hoyer <ohoyer@fbwi.fh-wilhelmshaven.de> Cc: Alex Zepeda <jazepeda@pacbell.net>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Great American Gas Out Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10003060541080.73118-100000@moo.sysabend.org> In-Reply-To: <4.1.20000305083742.00a4af00@mail.rz.fh-wilhelmshaven.de>
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On Sun, 5 Mar 2000, Olaf Hoyer wrote: :FYI, the old VW beetle was able to also use unleaded. beginning with some :engine series in the seventies. If you knew which engine rev you had, you :could use unleaded with no harm to the engine... Any VW flat four could run unleaded, but unless you switched out the valves and seats, you'd eventually start seeing degradation. The valves used the lead oxide created by leaded gas as a lubricant. I personally just ran unleaded in a standard flat four, and didn't worry about it, as the engine needed head work long before it ever became an issue. Jamie Bowden -- "Of course, that's sort of like asking how other than Marketing, Microsoft is different from any other software company..." Kenneth G. Cavness To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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