The car must have heard about my ideas! It;s leaking oil like crazy. It's just pouring right out of the tube the dipstick goes in. This will be a fun one to figure out.

I think it's definetly Crank case pressure for sure. Thinking about a breather kit.

Ive been getting alot of oil in the engine bay and couldn't figure out from where. I had a little breather on the oil fill and it was dripping with oil. So i figured I just needed to vent it better. Then it was sitting at an idle and oil began pouring out from the dipstick.Actually the dipsticktube. I did get it to stop by pulling the cap off so I figured its crankcase pressure?I'm 4 bolts from pulling the motor and going over the whole thing. I noticed how nasty the little buggers getting so I'll try and freshen it up.

Let me try it again Bugtech.
1. it was making a pretyy big puddle ideling for 10 minutes
2. it stopped when I took the cap off
3.no smoke or much of any blowby when the cap was off
4. oil level was a bit low at this point
5.no oil behind crank pulley
6.It was running fine just slinging oil mostly
7. The oli leaking has been getting pretyy bad,It was throwing it unto the back hood and running down the rear apron.

Most of it I think was leaking fromthis cheesy air breather I had on the oil filller spout.After digging around I just started finding to many shade tree fixes on stuff so I'm pulling her out and going over it all. So far Im missing 1 engine mount stud,alot of engine tin screws,The dipstick tube is less than an inch long and has been broke off at some point,almost every nut on it is junk,etc....I would feel better as much as I drive it knowing it is right.

Is there any way I can tell what size the pistons are(markings)?
I have the strange feeling this engine was a short block sittin in the old owners garage and he threw the rest of the junk on it. The reason I think so is that all the gaskets look new and everything else looks like spare parts. The engine ran a little weird after I got it tuned up.I didn't notice it until I drove a few others,mine is a bit louder and has a different feel. Larger cams,pistons? I have no clue.It did seem to run of and leave some other bugs around town.Maybe maniac driver. :lol:

Scott, Piston size is marked on the top of the piston on the outer edge. Stock 1600cc piston size is 85.45 mm. Cams other than stock are more likey marked around the slot that the oil pump sets in. example, Scat with a letter and number like C-35 etc etc. Stock cams were not marked.
  Stock cam gears were riveted on and hi-lift cam gear was bolted on.
  You can replace the dip stick tube. I have a trick to get the old one out. No big deal.

But it's pretty and shiny :lol: .I got the old one out I just gotta find a new one. So far no luck.I cleaned all the goop I could off the motor,It's basically a short block right now. I'm kinda scared to mess with the internals,but I have the feeling I should or maybe not....

First I gotta check with my better half to get my budget down,Then figure how far to go with it.Alot of stuff didn't look old so it has been messed with recently. I could definetly use your opinion on this. What should be replaced and not.I'm a fan of it it ain't broke don't fix it but I just don't trust what I've seen so far.I know alot of vw tools are probably needed to tear it down and check it all and that alone would kill the budget.

I'm also gonna have trouble getting parts quick enough to get it together.Mainly foreign kinda sucks,they don't seem like they want to sell anything. Seems like they don't like to look for anything yet they have it where you can't ,not to mention the prices. I'm just kind mad at em right now for being a pain in my butt.

Also I have had problems bugtech with a drip or two of oil coming from behind my pully.You say it's too much oil? Reads right on the stick.I did something one time along time ago.The vent from the filler neck had a long rubber hose on it going to the ground.This was on my beetle in the seventies.I said huh.Wonder why someone just didn't plug this off.The wind was blowing it back on the bottom of my engine so without thinking I plugged it off.Yes no more drip! I won't tell the rest but bad idea lol. :lol: Live and learn.Boy I felt stupid.But no knowledge at all back then.Just checked oil and filled up and went back then.I thought I had blown the engine going 40mph :lol: Sorry I had to tell that story.If you have a stupidier story than that send it to www.stupid vw stories.com lol

Not to fear. You are not the first one to plug off the down vent pipe. I had a customer who plug off his pipe plus the one to the air cleaner and then argued with me that this was not cause of his slight ,as he called it, oil leak.
    As far as the drip or two from behind the pulley ,I wouldn't be overly concern . You have to remember that there is no seal installed .  Several things can cause this seep one that there is to much clearance between the pulley shaft and the case, case is worn in the bore where the pulley slides in, pulley is damage, oil slinger on the crankshaft is on backwards.
   One fix for most of these problems was installation of a "sand pulley" kit that came with a seal. I guess they still offer those. Check some ads in Hot VWs mag. The engine also vents around the pulley. Next time you have a engine on the floor,tip it back on the pulley end and watch whats happens. If you use this kit just make sure all other vents are working well.