it's definitly broken.

stratos

I know I'm always banging on about old barges and how they are great value etc etc, and how owning one is a dream, pace grace and space.
Well grace pace and space is sitting out in the driveway dripping engine oil all over the place. I opened the bonnet there is oil all over the engine what ever let go directed engine oil into the radiator fan. ( I closed it again )
IT must have just happened as I pulled in. Anyway it's axel stands and a jack for me this weekend.
Still Ya gotta love 'em .

L-M

What is it? LOl

Henry Ford III

Few clues there but I reckon it's the Exxon Valdez

Mr Benevolent

I reckon it's the Exxon Valdez

Must've hit a rock so

DublinDilbert

it might be a tiny leak! It always looks much worse.... I had a carina II, the engine oil light came on as i went around a corner one day.... I stoped right away, poped the bonnet and there was oil every where and i mean every where.....

When i topped up the oil, i ran the engine and noticed a tiny drip from the breather hole in the fuel pump which was driven off the OHC. A little oil seal had gone in the fuel pump, which was allowing small amounts of oil to escape and drip out its breather hole.

Why was the mess so big? Cause the oil was dripping onto one of the drive/half shafts going to the front wheel, which was tossing it every where... so a new fuel pump (very cheap) and a steam clean, she was as good as new!

stratos

Well it took 3 litres to get the oil level, so it spewed out three litres.
A shaft seal on the timing cover seems to have failed, a good trickle of oil flows out under pressure straight down onto the drive belt ( as someone suggested).
I have moved the car to the corner of the garden where it can think about what it has done. Or moored it, as some suggested:).

L-M

stratos wrote: »

Well it took 3 litres to get the oil level, so it spewed out three litres.
A shaft seal on the timing cover seems to have failed, a good trickle of oil flows out under pressure straight down onto the drive belt ( as someone suggested).
I have moved the car to the corner of the garden where it can think about what it has done. Or moored it, as some suggested:).

Are you hiding what car you have? Lol

stratos

Lol I'm hiding the entire car. It's a 96 Jaguar xj6, it has been more reliable than you might think, well untill now.
It's not a major problem but access looks very tight. Bonnet off rad out. It's gonna be a pain.
But it looks like the old seal will just pull out somehow. Then it's pretty easy to press in a new one(when i find out how). Could have been worse.

Seth Brundle

DublinDilbert wrote: »

Why was the mess so big? Cause the oil was dripping onto one of the drive/half shafts going to the front wheel, which was tossing it every where... so a new fuel pump (very cheap) and a steam clean, she was as good as new!

Yet another reason to go RWD

peasant

kbannon wrote: »

Yet another reason to go RWD

unless the engine is in the back as well