Calum122
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Hi Gents,
So I have been driving my GT after it's been parked up for the last three years outside...
It's running like a dream, idle does drop a little low at times, around 800 RPM but that's not always.
The problem I've got is a SAVAGE oil leak on the car.
I can't seem to pin point where it's coming from. I don't have access to a ramp. The car really needs tracking, but I'm too embarrassed to take it anywhere with this much oil leaking from it.
It's going all over the alternator, and the lower arms and all the hard work I put into it is starting to turn into a mess.
Let alone the driveway.
Anyway, is there any common places where these cars tend to leak oil from.
The amount it's losing is pretty drastic. Let us say I may have overfilled the oil slightly some 300 miles ago and it's dropped below the low mark. I never let it drop below the low mark, I kept topping it up as it got to the halfway mark, but I've done that a few times now.
Honestly, I kinda suspect it's the crankshaft seal, but seeing as the car has been off the road for so long, I'm reluctant to look there as I know it'll mean the car being off the road for some time again.
The other one is the dipstick o-ring. Is there like a particular size people have used to stop the leak?
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks,
Calum
So I have been driving my GT after it's been parked up for the last three years outside...
It's running like a dream, idle does drop a little low at times, around 800 RPM but that's not always.
The problem I've got is a SAVAGE oil leak on the car.
I can't seem to pin point where it's coming from. I don't have access to a ramp. The car really needs tracking, but I'm too embarrassed to take it anywhere with this much oil leaking from it.
It's going all over the alternator, and the lower arms and all the hard work I put into it is starting to turn into a mess.
Let alone the driveway.
Anyway, is there any common places where these cars tend to leak oil from.
The amount it's losing is pretty drastic. Let us say I may have overfilled the oil slightly some 300 miles ago and it's dropped below the low mark. I never let it drop below the low mark, I kept topping it up as it got to the halfway mark, but I've done that a few times now.
Honestly, I kinda suspect it's the crankshaft seal, but seeing as the car has been off the road for so long, I'm reluctant to look there as I know it'll mean the car being off the road for some time again.
The other one is the dipstick o-ring. Is there like a particular size people have used to stop the leak?
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks,
Calum