Oil Leak After Rebuild

[cactu5]

Hi everyone,

I just took my freshly rebuilt car out to the shop to get a roadworthy. The guy at the shop failed me saying there was a bit of oil leaking out from the left hand side of the motor. I drove the car up one street to work, parked. When I came back about ten minutes later there was about two litres of oil out on the road. Before this I was thinking that the motor was getting a bit hot, it reached about 90 degrees, but it's a hot day.

I've looked at the leak and I can't tell exactly where it's coming from yet. It appears to be coming from the front left hand side. The sump bolt is in, it's not on the turbo side, and I don't think it's the oil filter. I poured some more oil into the car, and I haven't started it. It hasn't leaked a drop of it?!?

Does anyone have any thoughts/experience with what this could be?

I suppose I should be greatful that there were actually 2 litres of oil in the car when I stopped.

Cheers.

[Simon-S14]

yuor gonna have to find it and not justy assume that its stopped. fill it up with oil; and then rev it to around 3000 rpm, have a look around the engine bay for leaks

[N1GTR]

First thing - call the people that did the work and ask them why its leaking

[cactu5]

  N1GTR said:

First thing - call the people that did the work and ask them why its leaking

ha ha, yes I can tell that's going to be a friendly conversation.

[cactu5]

  Simon-R32 said:

yuor gonna have to find it and not justy assume that its stopped. fill it up with oil; and then rev it to around 3000 rpm, have a look around the engine bay for leaks

Cheers mate I'll do the test.

[Duncan]

2l would be a shitload of oil to leak, it was probably a lot less.

make sure oil filter is tight.

check the oil pressure sender is tight too

they are the easy ones. but if you had a shop do the work, easiest is to take it back for them to fix

[260tech]

  Duncan said:

2l would be a shitload of oil to leak, it was probably a lot less.

make sure oil filter is tight.

check the oil pressure sender is tight too

they are the easy ones. but if you had a shop do the work, easiest is to take it back for them to fix

Hi Cactu5, have you heard any complaints from the builders about your money not working at the bank? If you still owe money that is even better.

If it (rebuild) goes bad & you haven't given the builders an opportunity to put it on a hoist & check it out or given them the chance to rectify hiccups you are basically "majorly screwed" for any future problems/developments/claims.

Take your ship back & get it checked by the builders. Never mind the agro.

My 2c

Cheers & good luck, GW

[QUICKY]

had a veryyyy similar problem with my bros silvia just yesterday,. turned out to be a dodgey oil filter (or put on wrong :|)

reason i say its similar to yours, is becauz the leak was coming from the front left side hand side (like yours), and would not leak when the car was off, however would leak pretty bad once the car was on.

i suggest you turn the car on and poke ur head under it and watch to see if oil is dripping.

just my 2c mate good luck

[RRob]

  cactu5 said:

ha ha, yes I can tell that's going to be a friendly conversation.

Human error DOES happen. Don't be a prick just ask them nicely to rectify it.

[mid life crisis]

i think you need to talk to the builder dont get agro or nasty just explain your concerns and see what happens .

if you go in full of agro you wont get half as far it may not even be the builders fault iit maybe a faulty o ring on the filter or something really simple .and if you go in full of agro it will only make you look like a tosser atm its only a oil leak its not like its thrown a rod thru the block

just beat by the post above

Edited January 2, 2008 by mid life crisis

[Duncan]

lol although throwing a rod would cause a nasty oil leak....

[zebra]

Do you have a sandwich plate for any gauges etc....In my expirence they always leak. Bastard things now i have no Oil temp gauge.

Duncan there would be no oil leak after about 10 secs with that, so......no oil leak = no probs

But as above i would take it back to the shop.

[BAMR33]

probably filter.

Edited January 2, 2008 by BAMR33

[mid life crisis]

  Duncan said:

lol although throwing a rod would cause a nasty oil leak....

my mrs had a v6 camry she brought it new and it had only done 120.000 ks in about 10 yrs she babied this thing when a service was due it went in right on the knocker,

i was lucky to even get a drive of it after been together a few weeks i said how about i take ya for a nice drive in the hills in your car . end result it thru a rod thru the sump dumped all the engine oil onto the hot cat and presto one crispy fried camry on the side of the road lol . all is forgiven we are still together 4 yrs later

[bnr#@]

Had the same prob in a 180, dodgy genuine nissan oil filter, there was a bad batch of them floating arround where the ruber seal wouldnt hold properly. Changed to a ryco and havent had a problem.

[FATGTS-R]

This is a no brainer mate. If the problem isnt easily identifiable by yourself or even the rwc mech you should of spoken with the engine builder before you thought of posting on here.

Ring them up and tell them its leaked a lot of oil. Ask when is a good time to drop it off so they can have a look. Book the tilt tray and send it down to them.

I'm sure they will happily oblige.

[NYTSKY]

I like the part where they let drive out of there with an oil leak? WTF?