My little beastie is sick

[jason@scirocco.org (Jason)]

Ditto what everyone else said -- but those temperature sensors on the top 
are known to go bad and they puke out oil at an amazing rate.  Check them 
first before you check the oil seal -- they're around $10 and easy as pie 
to replace.  Scares the sh*t out of you because of the amount of oil they 
puke out, but it's a nothing.

Good luck!
Jason



At 11:00 PM 3/22/02 -0500, you wrote:

>Hi All,
>      Started my 87 8v up this morning and it puked all over the driveway.  It
>(fortunately) maintained enough oil in the system to get it into the garage,
>the rest is now a really neat stain in the snow (no I hadn't shovelled my
>driveway - it was about -20 last night).  I only ran it about 1 minute and 
>it's
>still leaking oil several hours later, so I'm confident nothing was hurt 
>inside.
>      Anyhow, the leak seems to be the square block-like bit the oil filter
>screws into from the bottom and the pressure senders screw into in the top (or
>maybe one of them is the temp sensor for the MFA?).  Unfortunately, my Bentley
>is on back-order so I have to ask.  What is the name of this square bit 
>and how
>hard is it to change the (presumed) leaking seal at the top?  Does this thing
>just unscrew like the filter?  Is my problem actually going to be the two
>little sensors on top?  Unfortunately my (soon to be fire starting material)
>Haynes is completely silent on this topic.  The archives only had discussions
>about this area on 16v engines that I could find.
>      I really appreciate any help you can provide.  I'm really not enjoying
>driving about in a mini-van.  Just doesn't corner the same.
>
>Cheers,
>Colin
>
>
>
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