oil leak

[roccit_53 at hotmail.com (C Boyko)]

Then what the hell was the O ring I replaced? I didn't pull all that stuff 
off, just the filter and the box shaped thing above it, some threaded rod 
and a few nuts to get it off. Yours has a fancy aftermarket one I take it? 
Mine was a pretty easy fix.
Cathy


>From: "L F" <rocco16v@netzero.net>
>To: <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>,<scas660@netzero.com>
>Subject: Re: oil leak
>Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2004 08:01:42 -0800
>
>Interesting.  My 16v finally broke the oil cooler-to-block adapter O-ring 
>on Tuesday. (It had been leaking for a month)
>  Large puddle in my drive and a tell-tale oil trail going about 1/2 mile 
>to where the oil pressure light started blinking and the buzzer sounded 
>off, telling me to check my oil pressure gage which said 'zero'.  (gage was 
>reading normal when I pulled out of the driveway)
>Uh-oh.
>
>Make u-ey, coast home ( 90%downhill ), replace O-ring. Replace oil and 
>coolant. All is well.
>Note: To remove the oil cooler you have to first:
>remove alternator
>remove AC compressor
>remove PS pump pulley
>(did I already go through this scenario here?)
>remove coolant lines
>
>The old O-ring was hard-like-plastic.  No wonder it let go.
>
>You should have received warning of low oil before significant damage 
>occured.  But you didn't, and a "clanking" noise sounds terminal.  Wish 
>there were better news....
>  (The "good" news: only took one hour to remove all the junk and 1.5 hours 
>to replace.)
>Advice to others who go through this: have new belts handy if the old ones 
>are even close to needing replacing.
>
>Larry
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: scas660@netzero.com
>   To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
>   Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2004 5:09 AM
>   Subject: oil leak
>
>
>
>   Please help
>
>   My 86 scirocco (16V) has been running great until yesterday when I 
>started it up and heard some fairly loud clanking noises. I looked under 
>the hood and the noise was obvioulsy coming from the head area ("oh crap I 
>think I blew my valves" was may first thought) then I looked under the car 
>and saw a small puddle of oil and oil that spattered all around the oil 
>filter area. Next I checked out the dip stick and hardly any oil was on it 
>at all. Anybody know what this is all about? Is the oil cooler near that 
>area and might that be the problem? I don't think I drove it in this 
>condition long - I only noticed the sound yesterday - could there be severe 
>damage? In NY there's snow around and its cold (I don't have a garage nor 
>do I want to bring it to a shop if I don't have to)
>
>   Thanks for any help - Steve
>
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