[T3] New Oil Leak

[Toadpipe]

I do in fact have a clean spot under the oil cooler, so that sounds like 
a good place to start.

Toadpipe


On 02/25/2012 02:01 PM, Jim Adney wrote:
> On 25 Feb 2012 at 13:12, Toadpipe wrote:
>
>> I've developed an oil leak on the left side of the engine.  I've had
>> ample time to watch it while fiddling with my idle and the oil seems to
>> pool up on the sheet metal under the left pistons and drip from either
>> side where it meets the engine case.  Seems to me this indicates that my
>> rocker cover gasket is bad so I'm planning to replace both of them.
>> However, it also occurs to me that I could be dead wrong, any other
>> cause of the leak I should be on the look out for?
> You could check the rocker cover gasket for some obvious flaw, but
> leaks there always drip down to the heat exchanges and then straight
> down to the ground.
>
> Your leak is much more likely to be from the oil cooler gaskets, on
> top of the left side case half. Leaks here are generally made clear
> by an area under the oil cooler which has been washed "clean" by
> leaking oil, unlike the solid black dirt that covers the rest of the
> case.
>
> It could also be a leaky oil pressure switch, on top of the oil
> cooler, or a pushrod tube which has rusted thru.
>
> If it's the cooler seals, email me for my faq, which explains the 3
> different versions of oil coolers, seals, and spacers. You have to
> use the right ones for your engine.
>