If you want i have a spare viton dip stick bellows i bought off Zed ....if you want it i can send it to you ...they are the best ones mines been on 11 years no problems . can't remember how much i bought it for something like 7 quid . Let me know if you want it ...see you at techenders .
It doesn't look too good, does it. I'll get it off you at Techenders, mate. Sent from my SM-G981B using Tapatalk
You can see all the potential leak paths at the back of the engine from that pic. All those already mentioned plus the oil cooler and seals, oil filler tube, thermostat pulley bolt even the breather tower. Dip stick boot is probably the most likely and fairly easy to replace.
Plus the oil gallery plugs at the rear of the engine near the fan have been known to leak or in the extreme pop out.
Oil drip is back on the sump heater. I replaced the bolts with studs and then used copper washers and nylock nuts. It's been fine since my last post, but I looked this morning, and it's dripping from the bottom of the nylocks. Is there anything I can put on to stop it? Sent from my SM-G981B using Tapatalk
You need to tighten copper washers until they start to crush onto a flat, smooth surface. The copper crushing probably starts at about the point the base plate of the heater deforms. Dowty washers have lip seals but rely on the hole the stud comes through being pretty close to the diameter of the stud, the sealing lip touches the thread. Another approach is to punch or drill a somewhat small hole, a bit less than the stud diameter, in a circular piece of oil proof rubber sheet or rubberish gasket material, Then squash it onto the plate with a washer between it and the nut- it should swell into the threads as well as sealing.
I've used Doughty washers didn't make any difference and I think the studs stick out to much for dome nuts. Sent from my SM-G981B using Tapatalk
Copper washers are crushed its running around the thread I thought the nylon on the nylocks would stop it But no it finds its way past it. Sent from my SM-G981B using Tapatalk
You could carefully cut the studs down Remember to wind a nut over them first and tidy up the cut ends
