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Oil leak
Does anyone have any suggestions?
- Clyde J Davis Jr
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Re: Oil leak
If you are stuck with the existing mechanics, you might consider working to identify the true source of the leak with additive and black light or wash the engine and baby powder it. If it happened after O/H, shop doing the re-mount needs to check its work.
Others may contribute add'l ideas.
Patricia Jayne (Pat) Keefer ICS 08899
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Re: Oil leak
- Clyde J Davis Jr
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Re: Oil leak
1) front crank seal was spinning loose in its housing
2) loose crank-case through bolts (I could spin two of them easily with my fingers!)
3) loose oil hose clamps
Item two probably had some sort of causal relationship with item one. Although we checked it last after doing a bunch of other work. Just didn't think to check the crank case bolts as it never occurred to anyone that those could be loose. Might be worth a check...
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Re: Oil leak
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- Clarence Beintema
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