Hi Clive,
I suspected as much. I seem to have a torrential leak when under load. The
breather is clear (well at least fumes seem to come out of it!), and around
town the leak is minimal, but after sustained high speed running especially
at full throttle, the amount of oil out the drain hole is substantial. I
suspect that a lip seal has been put in the bell housing (and therefore the
original return thread etc have been machined off) and that this has failed.
If so I suspect that the only solution will be to pull the engine down. Can
the rear seal be done without doing the whole engine?
Andrew
----- Original Message -----
From: "PMS GB Ltd" <Clives_page@compuserve.com>
To: "Andrew Fock" <awfock@netspace.net.au>
Sent: Thursday, 17 August 2000 5:24
Subject: Re: Oil leaks
Message text written by "Andrew Fock"
>The MMM cars however do not have a seal
at the rear of the crank, they just have an oil return thread and a
slinger.<
Hi Andrew -
In general the same applied to MMM as to T Type - I've done M, J, P and the
6 cylinder engines too - all with minimal leakage too.
Anyway it stops the garage floor from rusting!
Clive
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