Catastrophic Oil Leak

Discussion in 'Mech Tech' started by jonspadge, Feb 2, 2012.

  1. Nightmare. Checked the bus last night. Fired her up, all good. No issues. Fired her up this morning to take her to the MOT station. Oil dump - luckily I only had 300-400 yds to go to the garage but she pretty much dumped the lot. Looks like its coming from the Oil Filter. Garage now have to fix that before they can MOT the bus.

    Wondered if the extreme cold has split a rubber on the filter or something. Obviously I had to start her this morning while its still chuffing cold. Annoyingly I had a new oil filter and bits at home ready for a quick service that I planned on doing in a few weeks time.

    And now there is oil all down the drive, up the street and puddles where I stopped to get out of the junction. Done my best with paper towels but the neighbours are going to be *******ed...
     
  2. What a nightmare! Hope u get it sorted
     
  3. mate ....clean and check all seals and make sure valve gaskets on either side of the engine are good...then proced with changing oil filter and seal ...i think it may have failed on you ....after oil change and filter seated proper(remember to fill your oil filter before putting it on)....start the bus ,run around the back and look and inspect for any leaks ......cleaning oil is a git of a job ,loads of rags and detertgent may work ....dont use solvent on the main highway as council can sue ya ........where do ya live i may have to come round and slip on your drive and have a claim up looooooool...be lucky bruv ....hope ya filter just failed ...it was cold last night
     
  4. if you are worried about the spilled oil just get some oil dry granules or cat litter and soak it up
     
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  6. Put a load of dry washing detergent poweder down (inteweb advised this tactic). Garage will sort the bus - more annoyed than anything as I have to go away on business for 3 days and was hoping this would be done and dusted. Now this.

    Can't believe she wet herself in this undignified way.
     
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  9. engine parts sometimes do react to cold and hot in funny ways .....esp in extremes like this week ....
     
  10. I didn't know we'd had extreme weather this week. Has it been getting cold elsewhere? Only been getting to -5 here? Yer bits should be good down to at least -20 without any issues.
    :)
     
  11. with old metals all you need few days minus to feck em up if there fatiged bruv...i do agree with you tho ,it aint been that bad....london was -6 last night on my gshock flash barsteward watch
     
  12. It blew out the o ring on the oil filter. Mech at the MOT garage didn't know why - said he'd only ever seen it once in 40 years (on a Lancia). Luckily I had a new one and they will sort tomorrow. So that's the cost of an oil change on top of the MOT! And we've still to get through that. He also said when he got under there he could turn it with his hand - so element of it working loose perhaps.

    Going to check that before I turn her over in future. Another notch on the vw ownership bedpost I suppose...
     
  13. Having seen your bus up close in the flesh mate i'm guessing you'll need a very picky MOT man for you to pick up a fail.

    Glad you're sorted though
    :)
     
  14. remember that American space shuttle disaster some years ago , it blew up on take off killing everyone on board?Richard Feynman (particle physicist) traced cause to a hardened seal caused by very low atmospheric temp.in the days before and the dayof the launch.interesting stuff
     

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