Re: She's bleeding! [Oil Leaks]

[Benton Yoshida <byoshida@zygote.hsc.usc.edu>]

	One more place you might want to check is the oil pressure switch
since it's notorious for leaking although I don't know about spraying.
It's on the side of the block so I don't think it could spray onto your cap
and AC lines.  Is there oil on the underside of the hood?  Are you sure the
stuff is engine oil?  Could the oil be from the AC?  Power steering?  Good
luck, benton------


>My 84 wolfsburg is sitting 30 mins away in my parent's garage on ramps.
>Sometime withing the last week i sprouted an oil leak! I fear it is the
>result of this cold weather and starting to drive too soon or fast.
>
>There seems to have been oil sprayed along the front lower area of the
>block, from the distributor, down. There were some drops on the cap,
>radiator shroud, AC lines, and all over my shift linkage and rad. hoses.
>Iv'e done a lot of wiping and made sure all of my pan bolts are snug.
>
>The oil is most definately NOT running down from the head gasket. I had
>that resurfaced and it's bone dry.
>
>I have one of these sandwich oil coolers that passes the antifreeze
>through it. There is no aparent leakage at the oil filter connection to
>the cooler, or the cooler to the rest of the hookup. However, behind the
>sandwich look to be two allen socket cap bolts which I suspect are
>insufficiently tightened and somehow there is a leak ?? Either that or the
>hidden part of the whole cooler connection which faces the block.

>~C


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