Found me oil leak!!!

Wondered why my car (4.6 HSE) was using oil. Thought as first it was maybe burning the very thin 5w40 I
put in. But no!! I power all the **** off the bottom of the engine & boxes until it gleamed last night. I
used some car ramps so I could get right under it. Went on a 200m journey today & had a good look
underneath for the source. It's the crankshaft front seal so when it's running it's ****ing oil all over
the bottom of the car & onto the road, but when you park it up you only get a tiny drip!!! It must be
****ing out, there's oil all over the gaff!!

My friendly Land Rover mechanic quoted me an hour to do it!

Thank god it's nothing more serious!

Nige



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Subaru WRX
Range Rover 4.6 HSE (The Tank!)
110 Hi Cap (Ben)

'"Opinions are like arseholes, everyones got one"

Only one ? Lucky sod !! )

On or around Thu, 20 Apr 2006 17:50:47 +0100, "Nige"
<[email protected]> enlightened us thusly:

>Wondered why my car (4.6 HSE) was using oil. Thought as first it was maybe burning the very thin 5w40 I
>put in. But no!! I power all the **** off the bottom of the engine & boxes until it gleamed last night. I
>used some car ramps so I could get right under it. Went on a 200m journey today & had a good look
>underneath for the source. It's the crankshaft front seal so when it's running it's ****ing oil all over
>the bottom of the car & onto the road, but when you park it up you only get a tiny drip!!! It must be
>****ing out, there's oil all over the gaff!!
>
>My friendly Land Rover mechanic quoted me an hour to do it!
>
>Thank god it's nothing more serious!

trouble is, it'll rust if you fix the leak...
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is to be none the less free than you were before."
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180), from Meditations, VIII.16

Austin Shackles wrote:
> On or around Thu, 20 Apr 2006 17:50:47 +0100, "Nige"
> <[email protected]> enlightened us thusly:
>
>> Wondered why my car (4.6 HSE) was using oil. Thought as first it was
>> maybe burning the very thin 5w40 I put in. But no!! I power all the
>> **** off the bottom of the engine & boxes until it gleamed last
>> night. I used some car ramps so I could get right under it. Went on
>> a 200m journey today & had a good look underneath for the source.
>> It's the crankshaft front seal so when it's running it's ****ing oil
>> all over the bottom of the car & onto the road, but when you park it
>> up you only get a tiny drip!!! It must be ****ing out, there's oil
>> all over the gaff!!
>>
>> My friendly Land Rover mechanic quoted me an hour to do it!
>>
>> Thank god it's nothing more serious!
>
> trouble is, it'll rust if you fix the leak...

I'm gonna get it waxoyled anyway, it's virtually new underneath. Chassis is like new & the engine & box
are like new too!! Mainly due to oil i reckon, but like new!

Not many jobs to do now to get it 100%. My new lower tailgate is crying out to be fit, but the weathers
not allowing it right now. I have a door check strap to fit & possibly a rear box due to the stupid
design of the back box is in direct firing line of the back wheel ffs!! The box etc is fine, but the
joint looks very shaky!

The air susp bags look a bit tired, but if they pass the ets, they pass the test.

I'm more annoyed about the ****kickers from Autoglass ****ing up the new windscreen. Me carpets are wet &
i'm not happy about it one bit.

Nige


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Subaru WRX
Range Rover 4.6 HSE (The Tank!)
110 Hi Cap (Ben)

'"Opinions are like arseholes, everyones got one"

>
>The air susp bags look a bit tired, but if they pass the ets, they pass the test.
A mate with a Disco II Es, after getting fed up with replacing the
airbags, just put some tire slime (this is the green gunk you put in
Mountain Bike tires to stop getting punctures) and he never had
problems again. He has replaced it with a DIII but his mate who bought
it off him is also having no problems almost a year after the "fix".

Regards
Stephen