I've noticed that after every time I go for a drive there is a little bit of oil on the ground. This might sound dumb, but is this normal? I'm
planning to put a little more punch into my 1500cc sp but not sure if a leaky engine is worth working on. I never seem to have to fill much oil into
it and there is no smoke or really excessive oil burning smell
Any thoughts?
You need to give it a really good degrease and see where it is leaking from
It could be as simple as one of the rocker gaskets or sump gasket.
Push rod tubes can be slightly more troublesome, same with say oil cooler seals or the front engine seal. A bit more work required to fix.
The difficult ones are if the motor has a heap of blow by / crank case pressure and is forcing oil out.
They "shouldnt" leak.
Mine doesnt leak at home where it is flat but seems to leave a drop at work where I have to park on a slight side incline.
They don't leak, they are just marking their territory. lol
Mine is leaking quite a bit, not so good, but I guess everyone at work knows where Zelda sits
Mine will take a little more effort to fix, have to take the LHS head off.
Seems the head itself has become displaced, which isn't good!
Any other car, water cooled that is, wouldn't run. But because no water can get into the engine in an air cooled monster, I am all good until it just
implodes...
Will need to remove the engine to fix mine. I hope it isn't the same for you and it is an easy fix!
Degrease the engine, clean it up, and find where that leak is coming from, then go from there!
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mine dont leak
Lee i disagree with the use of permatex or any gasket goo on the pushrod tube seals . they should be just wiped in a light smear of high temp grease
as like you say the motors expand and contract with the heat .
Oh and dont use the shitty red rubber pushrod tube seals either as they go hard with the heat , the white silicon are the go
Hrm ... i'll have to give it a good degreasing and have a look where it is actually coming from... my driveway is sloped so that could be something. i had the oil cooler seals? replaced a while ago so they are good... it was pissing oil out before i got it fixed. thanks for all the info guys!! do most of you build / do all your own maintinance? i have no tools and no space so most of the work is done by my mechanic ... do they run like vw maintinance courses or anything around the place?