Just when I was gonna treat it...

[MaximumJed]

Booked my 4.6 in with jason today for a little work to hopefully sort out all the little issues I have been having, thought to myself, "That'll get everything sorted, no worries for a bit".

Get back to the car park and there is a little puddle of oil under the front left! Gutted isn't enough of a word

Any ideas of common issues? Maybe rocker cover or vanos?

[macky]

Could be many things tbh but check power steer fluid level at the reservoir as I have seen the hoses leak quite a few times.
If the oils dirty black its engine oil.

[MaximumJed]

Definitely engine oil rather than power steering fluid.

[pvr]

Thought most of that would have been caught by the under tray though?

[thedweeb]

[quote=""pvr""]Thought most of that would have been caught by the under tray though?[/quote]
I thought that but I suppose if it was leaking for long enough it would find its way out.

[MaximumJed]

Turns out that it is the cam cover gaskets, apparently a laborious process as I have been quoted £800 and a whole day to fix it

[Turks]

That is a hell of alot of oil to be leaking from the cam covers to create a puddle on the floor

Have you noticed it consuming a lot of oil before you noticed the puddle?


Turks.

[MaximumJed]

About a litre per 1,000 miles I think. Maybe a bit more. I assume it had been leaking for a while and created a pool in the undertray which eventually leaked over.

I had an Inspection II done over the last couple of days and the cam gaskets was the verdict, no traces anywhere else on the block apparently.

[IanP]

[quote=""MaximumJed""]Turns out that it is the cam cover gaskets, apparently a laborious process as I have been quoted £800 and a whole day to fix it [/quote]
Considering the amount of stuff that has to be removed to get to the cam covers, thats not too bad