Very strange oil leak
09-02-2005, 05:14 AM
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Very strange oil leak
When inspecting the engine I discovered this oil leak when I removed the driver's side air intake tube:
It looks to me the oil must have come up through the timing belt cover breathing hole, soaked into the foam-type intake tube and thus spread to a wider area including the pictured plug leads.
Engine's running fine without any hesitation or mis-firing.
Ideas anyone?
It looks to me the oil must have come up through the timing belt cover breathing hole, soaked into the foam-type intake tube and thus spread to a wider area including the pictured plug leads.
Engine's running fine without any hesitation or mis-firing.
Ideas anyone?
09-05-2005, 12:39 PM
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UPDATE
The timing belt cover is off, and not an oil drop in sight - looks bone dry :
The possible explanation seems rather daft: The mechanic at Porsche said that shortly before I bought the car nearly 1,5 years ago, the PO had driven without oil filler cap on, causing a real mess including soaking the foam intake tubes. He thinks these have "retained" some of this oil until now - which is what I thought was a leak. I really can't see any other solution either. Anyway I'm throwing them now and replacing them with plastic ones.
Peter, Daniel, I'm glad appears to be nothing else!
The possible explanation seems rather daft: The mechanic at Porsche said that shortly before I bought the car nearly 1,5 years ago, the PO had driven without oil filler cap on, causing a real mess including soaking the foam intake tubes. He thinks these have "retained" some of this oil until now - which is what I thought was a leak. I really can't see any other solution either. Anyway I'm throwing them now and replacing them with plastic ones.
Peter, Daniel, I'm glad appears to be nothing else!
/Peter
