Help is this a massive problem.... bloody hope not!

[SarahD]

was at a car meet earlier, and someone noticed oil on the floor. and it was where my car was parked.... anyway thought nowt of it and then noticed earlier outside my house that ive got oil.... so ive taken these pics..... i put a litre of oil in it other day... and now theres nothing showing on the dipstick....   

ive taken these..... is it the actual sump or the sump gasket... or something else? sorry bout the size of the pics but i aint resized em so u can see.... i dont know what im looking for   









bit worried now cos ive gotta get to work etc

[vaughn]

could be a few things sas, can you take another pic of the engine from the top looking down on the gearbox side of the engine please

[kingsmk2]

sass... its not gonna stop the car from running but the sump gasket looks fooked, the engine looks a little oily behind the diddi cap aswell is it leaking elsewhere??

[davero]

looks a wee bit middle east 

[SarahD]

im waitin for batteries to recharge, gunna clean some of that oil off now and try and see if its comin from anywhere, ill take some more pics soon as the batteries charged.... cant see it dripping anywhere though

[kniterider]

clean all round the sump/oil pan, but its doubtfull that even with a weepy sump gasket its losing that much, you need to check with it up on ramp/axles stands at a level to see if you can see if its running from somewhere else then onto the sump, hopefully not a crank seal gone, but im sure if its lost over a litre in a week you see wehere its coming from ,........

crank seals (pulley or flywheel end)
oil fitler rubber seal


not alot else really to spue that amount of oil on to your arse end!!

 

[SarahD]

looks like its coming from the oil filter, ive cleaned the oil off the sump and around the chassis legs, and im waitin for the digi cam batteries to recharge to take another few pics

cant see any from the top of the engine though

[kniterider]

if its oil filter tis easy, just get a new one and fit it just make sure you smeer the new rubber seal with fresh wngine oil before you fit, have you had an oil change etc done recently??

ibe had a rubber seal fail on me before on an oil filter, changed the oil+filter the day before, went to work, on the way home the oil light came on... the seal had split... and pumped the contents of the sump onto the orad, luckily id iddnt seize it up........

hope its a simple fix for you.... oil leaks are a pain in the ass, one drp spreads like wild fire and can be hard to trace.....

dose sound like your filter seal though ....

 

[SarahD]

if its oil filter tis easy, just get a new one and fit it just make sure you smeer the new rubber seal with fresh wngine oil before you fit, have you had an oil change etc done recently??

ibe had a rubber seal fail on me before on an oil filter, changed the oil+filter the day before, went to work, on the way home the oil light came on... the seal had split... and pumped the contents of the sump onto the orad, luckily id iddnt seize it up........

hope its a simple fix for you.... oil leaks are a pain in the ass, one drp spreads like wild fire and can be hard to trace.....

dose sound like your filter seal though ....

 

ive got a new oil filter here, just no oil :mad:

i cant see any drips now, just put a towel under the car and left it for 10 mins and no drips at all.. but theres no oil on the dip stick tbh.... .. heres another few pics....

[monkeyalan]

by the way oil is all over the crossmember in front of the filter i'd be inclined to agree it's the filter seal. it's like it's been forced out under pressure. you may as well put the new one on now anyway.