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Model specific boards => Golf mk4 => Topic started by: pitchy on 28 February 2010, 19:38

Title: hot oil/grease smell?
Post by: pitchy on 28 February 2010, 19:38

i can smell a grease kinda smell when i get out the car,  a friend of a friend with a tdi said he had the same with cv boot leaking? i cant see owt near any of the boots ? this is leading me more to think its a boost leak or some kind of leak ? or is he right? is this a common thing?

Title: Re: hot oil/grease smell?
Post by: gti_shaun on 28 February 2010, 23:24

yes if the inner boot leaks it can spat the grease on the hot engine and give off the smell

Title: Re: hot oil/grease smell?
Post by: pitchy on 01 March 2010, 12:43

been under the car this dinner and the cv's seem ok ? there does seem to be oil on top of the gearbox tho, is there a breather or any thing that could have come off?

Title: Re: hot oil/grease smell?
Post by: Mr_Orange on 01 March 2010, 17:10

Diff oil seals on gearbox?

Title: Re: hot oil/grease smell?
Post by: Wazzzer on 01 March 2010, 18:50

what engine?

Title: Re: hot oil/grease smell?
Post by: pitchy on 01 March 2010, 20:15

its aum , im doin rear bushes at the weekend so il av a good luck underneath

Title: Re: hot oil/grease smell?
Post by: Wazzzer on 01 March 2010, 22:02

I'm guessing Y shaped breather hose on the side of the rocker cover has got a hole in it :wink:

Title: Re: hot oil/grease smell?
Post by: pitchy on 01 March 2010, 22:10

i havent looked , but i thought of that tonight, i rung my mate ( who i bought it off ) because he recently took the cai off and put the standard box back on , im wondering if hes broke the pipe ? he says he remembers putting it back on. im wondering if this is linked to my emmisions light bein on?

Title: Re: hot oil/grease smell?
Post by: Wazzzer on 01 March 2010, 22:52

they wear anyways as they are made from normal rubber which the oil vapour rots away.

It will prob be the reason your light is on if not that pipe one of the others

You'll prob have a fuel system fault logged too :wink: