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Omega Help Area => Omega General Help => Topic started by: tigers_gonads on 19 October 2014, 13:01:27
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Okay, just replaced the oil cooler / full oil and filter change.
Filled it up with water and fresh oil and turned the key.
It fires up first time with no problems.
Had a look underneath as you do only to see fresh engine oil pishing down behind the block >:(
Got underneath there with the torch expecting to see it coming from around the filter housing only to find it is coming out of (what looks) like a hole in the block above the filter housing, near the down pipe / exhaust manifold :o >:(
Anybody got any ideas on this please ??
I'll try and take a picture later when I get these pigging oil soaked clothes off >:(
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The oil cooler pipes bolt into the block around about there
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Did you bend the cooler pipes or take them off if you bent them out the way probably cracked one and oil coming out. :-\
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I'm just charging my camera batteries now but it looks to me that its coming from the engine block above where the oil cooler pipes are :(
Yes, the pipes was undone at both ends
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Is they a oil core plug around there ?
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Apologies if these are a bit big
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It could be the top end of the oil pipes not seated properly :-\ was there oil there before you did the work if not then it will almost certainly be something you have done i:e not tightened properly or seal not seating :y
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Everything was oil free before I started >:(
I'm beginning to think that one of the pipes onto the oil cooler hasn't sealed properly :-\
The front of the car is well and truly jacked up so any leak would flow straight back towards the back of the engine and work its way down :-\
Opinions please before I pull the plenum / fannymold off AGAIN ::) :'(
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So dry before and now oil then it must be the pipes not seating properly even so you need to take the plenum off to get a proper look :y
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For Sale
Various body parts from a ham fisted git18 year old son who over tightened the piggin front banjo bolt on the oil cooler causing it to fracture and leak nice fresh oil all over my clean engine and nearly cause me to have another nervous breakdown >:( >:(
Body part prices available on request :y
All body parts must be collected in person ;D
Cash only (no PayPal) ;D ;D ;D
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Oh noooo make him pay for a new cooler. :y :y
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Oh noooo make him pay for a new cooler. :y :y
Managed to tap out what was left of the old bolt with a hammer and screwdriver so its just a case of new washers and a bolt :(
Oh believe me, I won't let him forget this in a hurry ;) ;D ;D
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For Sale
Various body parts from a ham fisted git18 year old son who over tightened the piggin front banjo bolt on the oil cooler causing it to fracture and leak nice fresh oil all over my clean engine and nearly cause me to have another nervous breakdown >:( >:(
Body part prices available on request :y
All body parts must be collected in person ;D
Cash only (no PayPal) ;D ;D ;D
Bet we know what bits stemo will want :D
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For Sale
Various body parts from a ham fisted git18 year old son who over tightened the piggin front banjo bolt on the oil cooler causing it to fracture and leak nice fresh oil all over my clean engine and nearly cause me to have another nervous breakdown >:( >:(
Body part prices available on request :y
All body parts must be collected in person ;D
Cash only (no PayPal) ;D ;D ;D
alway said kids cost an arm and a leg ;D
i'll shut the door on the way out....... ;D
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Oh noooo make him pay for a new cooler. :y :y
Managed to tap out what was left of the old bolt with a hammer and screwdriver so its just a case of new washers and a bolt :(
Oh believe me, I won't let him forget this in a hurry ;) ;D ;D
jeez you was lucky there, sorry it all went tits up for you.
at least its an easy fix. ;)
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Make him buy you a torque wrench :y
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That'll learn 'im! ::) and I'm guessing he got a bollocking he'll never forget! ;D
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Okay, new banjo bolts and washers should be here tomorrow but i've concerns about the thread on the oil cooler :-\
After my soon to be dismembered son had knackered the last bolt and i'd managed to remove what was left of it with careful use of a hammer and screwdriver, my gut instinct says the internal thread may be dodgy :-\
Just in case, would a nice dose of Blue Hylomar type substance blathered carefully applied to the thread of the new bolt do the trick :-\
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What makes you think it is a problem is the thread clean does there look like there is anything left there, I would use new washers too and gently and slowly do it up if it feels at all dodgy then I suspect the thread in the cooler is bollaxed. :(
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What makes you think it is a problem is the thread clean does there look like there is anything left there, I would use new washers too and gently and slowly do it up if it feels at all dodgy then I suspect the thread in the cooler is bollaxed. :(
I'm one of the unluckiest blokes on the planet, that's why ;D ;D ;D
Put it back together yesterday and took it for a 20 mile drive with no oil leak problems :)
Now it looks like while flushing the radiator out, i've cracked one of the cores >:(
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For Sale
Various body parts from a ham fisted git18 year old son who over tightened the piggin front banjo bolt on the oil cooler causing it to fracture and leak nice fresh oil all over my clean engine and nearly cause me to have another nervous breakdown >:( >:(
It's called 'On the job training'. ;D ;D ;D
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What makes you think it is a problem is the thread clean does there look like there is anything left there, I would use new washers too and gently and slowly do it up if it feels at all dodgy then I suspect the thread in the cooler is bollaxed. :(
I'm one of the unluckiest blokes on the planet, that's why ;D ;D ;D
Put it back together yesterday and took it for a 20 mile drive with no oil leak problems :)
Now it looks like while flushing the radiator out, i've cracked one of the cores >:(
OFFS :o >:(