{"id":1522,"date":"2025-08-27T19:04:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T19:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robonza.com\/beetle\/?p=1522"},"modified":"2025-08-27T19:04:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T19:04:09","slug":"tears-of-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robonza.com\/beetle\/index.php\/2025\/08\/27\/tears-of-oil\/","title":{"rendered":"Tears of Oil"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The baja was leaking oil from the passenger side valve cover. I pulled off the cover, I think it was either coming from too much RTV or not having the right seal on the valve cover bolt. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/robonza.com\/beetle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_2960-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1541\" srcset=\"https:\/\/robonza.com\/beetle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_2960-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/robonza.com\/beetle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_2960-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/robonza.com\/beetle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_2960-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/robonza.com\/beetle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_2960-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/robonza.com\/beetle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_2960-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I removed the valve cover and scraped off all the sealant. Put on an EMPI valve cover bolt o-ring and Wolfsburg West cork seals. Two drives and no leaks, I&#8217;ll call it a win. Although I am silicone gasket curious. I purchased some from JBugs, if it leaks again I&#8217;ll try it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/robonza.com\/beetle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_3029-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1519\" srcset=\"https:\/\/robonza.com\/beetle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_3029-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/robonza.com\/beetle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_3029-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/robonza.com\/beetle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_3029-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/robonza.com\/beetle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_3029-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/robonza.com\/beetle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_3029-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" src=\"https:\/\/robonza.com\/beetle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_3030-edited-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1524\" srcset=\"https:\/\/robonza.com\/beetle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_3030-edited-1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/robonza.com\/beetle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_3030-edited-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/robonza.com\/beetle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_3030-edited-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/robonza.com\/beetle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_3030-edited-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/robonza.com\/beetle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_3030-edited-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/robonza.com\/beetle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_3030-edited-1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Parts: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Cork valve cover gasket <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wolfsburgwest.com\/cart\/DetailsList.cfm?ID=113101481F\">https:\/\/www.wolfsburgwest.com\/cart\/DetailsList.cfm?ID=113101481F<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>EMPI aluminum valve cover gasket o-ring <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jbugs.com\/product\/9087.html\">https:\/\/www.jbugs.com\/product\/9087.html<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The baja was leaking oil from the passenger side valve cover. I pulled off the cover, I think it was either coming from too&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1521,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robonza.com\/beetle\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robonza.com\/beetle\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robonza.com\/beetle\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robonza.com\/beetle\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robonza.com\/beetle\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1522"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/robonza.com\/beetle\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1561,"href":"https:\/\/robonza.com\/beetle\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522\/revisions\/1561"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robonza.com\/beetle\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robonza.com\/beetle\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robonza.com\/beetle\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robonza.com\/beetle\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}