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[T3] Oil leak mystery


<x-charset iso-8859-1>I have a reasonably serious oil leak. It drips from the tin at the sides,
from the bottom of the fan casing and from the muffler. Also from a few
points on the sump, but not from the plate with the six nuts.

I cleaned the engine then took it to my mechanic who decided that the oil
cooler must be leaking because when we put it on the hoist we could see that
oil has been spraying out the vent from the oil cooler onto the transmission
and other surfaces including the rubber boot on the cv.

However when i got home i looked again, and I noticed that oil has also been
spraying out from the split in the fan casing and spraying directly onto the
side of the coil.  This suggests to me that somehow oil is flowing into the
fan and then being sprayed through the oil cooler and the rest of the
engine, so maybe the oil cooler is not at fault. Do you usually get oil
leaks into the fan housing? if so where do they come from?

Any thoughts would be appreciated so i can avoid the unnecessary replacement
of the oil cooler.

Andrew Davidson
Melbourne, Australia

PS. thanks all for the feedback on my front end problems a while back, it
was, as several suggested, merely a case of adjusting the bolt on the upper
torsion arm (after finding a new mechanic who knew how the bolt worked), and
thanks Keith for the front end FAQ.

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