Hi all,
A friend of my wife has bought a X reg Brava with the 1.2 16 valve engine. It's got 70k on the clock and quite possibly the worst oil leak I have ever seen.
I had a quick look at the car today and the leak is ridiculous. Popped the upper cam cover off and with the engine running there is a fine mist of oil spraying upwards from one of the wheels below the cam wheel. There's so much oil in there I can't be certain where it is coming from.
I know very little about this engine (always had the Lampredi twin-cams in my Fiat's). Oil spray seems to be coming from the wheel directly below the cam wheel, is this the oil pump wheel?
Tha car lost about a litre of oil while I was looking at it. The leak is below the level of the head gasket and it doesn't appear to be the culprit (no overheating, no loss of power, etc).
The engine continues leaking after it is switched off but ends up just a small drip compared to the large scale oil loss when running.
I can't see it being the head gasket or crank seal due to the amount of oil being lost and the pressure it is coming out at.
Any ideas would be much appreciated, especially a diagram of what's what at that side of the engine. Also price for a pump and replacement procedure would be great. As the car is immobile at the moment, the work will have to be done at the side of the road, so as you can guess, I'm really looking forward to this.
Thanks,
Alan
A friend of my wife has bought a X reg Brava with the 1.2 16 valve engine. It's got 70k on the clock and quite possibly the worst oil leak I have ever seen.
I had a quick look at the car today and the leak is ridiculous. Popped the upper cam cover off and with the engine running there is a fine mist of oil spraying upwards from one of the wheels below the cam wheel. There's so much oil in there I can't be certain where it is coming from.
I know very little about this engine (always had the Lampredi twin-cams in my Fiat's). Oil spray seems to be coming from the wheel directly below the cam wheel, is this the oil pump wheel?
Tha car lost about a litre of oil while I was looking at it. The leak is below the level of the head gasket and it doesn't appear to be the culprit (no overheating, no loss of power, etc).
The engine continues leaking after it is switched off but ends up just a small drip compared to the large scale oil loss when running.
I can't see it being the head gasket or crank seal due to the amount of oil being lost and the pressure it is coming out at.
Any ideas would be much appreciated, especially a diagram of what's what at that side of the engine. Also price for a pump and replacement procedure would be great. As the car is immobile at the moment, the work will have to be done at the side of the road, so as you can guess, I'm really looking forward to this.
Thanks,
Alan