Classics Monthly

Oil and fuel upgrades

I’ll never forget the time I was driving a Beetle-based kit car on the M62 when the dreaded rattle from the engine emerged from nowhere. Back home, the cylinder heads were removed and the pistons waggled to discover the big end bearings had failed.

As you can imagine, my current VW camper’s air-cooled engine has quite a mass of metal, people and camping gear to move, so I’m determined to avoid another catastrophic engine failure. With only oil and air to lubricate and cool the motor, I wondered whether a

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