Ive just found a small oil leak from the bell housing, dont know whether its the engine or the gearbox but its not a good sign...... its not a good
sign and im thinking i should get the engine out to take a look.... ooer...
[Edited on 20/3/09 by Findlay234]
If it's the diff that's leaking why do you need to to take out the engine/gearbox to have look?
EDITED:: Meant bell housing....
Engine oil and gearbox oil have a different smell. That should identify.
Either way it will have to come out.
As above... if you sniff it and it makes you start wreching... its gearbox oil... if you smell it and it smells vaguly of petrol, its engine oil
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Originally posted by Thinking about it
Engine oil and gearbox oil have a different smell. That should identify.
Either way it will have to come out.
Well the oil is clean but then the car has only been run shortly... The gearbox has gear oil in it and the oil on the floor seems more like engine oil but im no expert. Ill have to have the engine out when i get a chance... gutted...... and times not on my side what with hopefully getting an SVA in before the end of april......... hmmm, gonna be a lot of very late evenings.......
Sounds like its going to be the crankshaft oil seal from your description. That means removing the clutch and flywheel too to get to it. Once the engine is out though it shouldnt be too bad a job
I'm a BEC man myself so unfamiliar with this gearbox / engine interface.
But, does it really need fixing now? Before SVA? I mean, you aren't going to be doing loads of miles are you. The SVA test is pretty much
static, with the exception of the self centring.
If the oil is pouring out then engine out and fix it. If (IMHO) its a little drip then "they all do that".
Get it in for an SVA, even if he fails you for the leak, then you have 6 months to re-test. Even if the leak damages the clutch plates, then they are
going to be a lot cheaper to replace than the cost difference between SVA and IVA?
Mike
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Originally posted by Guinness
I'm a BEC man myself so unfamiliar with this gearbox / engine interface.
But, does it really need fixing now? Before SVA? I mean, you aren't going to be doing loads of miles are you. The SVA test is pretty much static, with the exception of the self centring.
If the oil is pouring out then engine out and fix it. If (IMHO) its a little drip then "they all do that".
Get it in for an SVA, even if he fails you for the leak, then you have 6 months to re-test. Even if the leak damages the clutch plates, then they are going to be a lot cheaper to replace than the cost difference between SVA and IVA?
Mike
If it's engine oil, check to make sure it's not coming out the rocker cover of head or any other blocked off holes ( like dizzy hole )
also what engine have you got ??
4age engine, Think what im gonna do is monitor it and see how much comes out. its a drip really. mybe a puddle the size of a 50p peice after a day or
two.
Im going to be warming up the engine in the next few weeks and see if that has an effect. If think ill wait untill sva. dont think ill have the time
otherwise. though if i do get the time ill get onto it.