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ChrisF
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Oil splattered all over the n/s/f wing
« on: May 23rd, 2008, 10:59pm » |
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I have oil litteraly running of the nearside front of the engine compartment just below the air filter. It has always been there, since I've had the Scorpio 2.3, about six months, it doesn't seem to make much difference to consumption it has done 180k after all. But it worries me, where the hell does it come from. Any suggestions?
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Re: Oil splattered all over the n/s/f wing
« Reply #1 on: May 24th, 2008, 1:17am » |
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- Oil is a fossil fuel which means it comes from fossils.
- The fossils that oil comes from started of as tiny sea creatures called plankton (millions and trillions of plankton) and bits of dead plant matter that got washed out to sea
- As the plankton died and the plant matter sank to the bottom of the sea they formed a layer and combined with minerals like sand to make a soft layer of rock.
- Very slowly over millions of years the layer changed into oil
- The oil collected in pools in the layers of rock called reservoirs
or is that not what you meant?? 
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ChrisF
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Re: Oil splattered all over the n/s/f wing
« Reply #2 on: May 24th, 2008, 11:33am » |
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Thank you Bazz . . . . I'll rephrase it 'where's it leaking from'
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Re: Oil splattered all over the n/s/f wing
« Reply #3 on: May 24th, 2008, 12:45pm » |
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and synthetic based oil?
seriously though a small amount of hot oil sprayed can look a lot, actually does it look as if its being sprayed? if so could be oil cooler lines.....
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Re: Oil splattered all over the n/s/f wing
« Reply #4 on: May 24th, 2008, 5:57pm » |
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does your car have air con? and more to the point does it get cold?
i had the same symtom, turned out to be a blown/broken ac pipe
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ChrisF
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Re: Oil splattered all over the n/s/f wing
« Reply #5 on: May 24th, 2008, 10:55pm » |
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Yes it does have air con and it doesn't work . . . . why do you ask?
What pipe on the air con was broken.
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Re: Oil splattered all over the n/s/f wing
« Reply #6 on: May 25th, 2008, 12:19am » |
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This may be of help to you but i had the same thing on my 2.3 it was coming from the top back breather pipe. I changed the sponge filter in the air filter box were the breather pipe goes into the box had no trouble since. Try it dosnt take long to do.dave
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Re: Oil splattered all over the n/s/f wing
« Reply #7 on: May 25th, 2008, 11:01am » |
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Funnily enough there does appear to be a pipe that has been blanked of, it is on the near side right at the top of the radiator, its about 3/4 inch dia it has been cut to about 2 inch with a bolt put in to seal it. Everything seems to work, except the air con. Could this have been the 'leak'?
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Re: Oil splattered all over the n/s/f wing
« Reply #8 on: May 25th, 2008, 1:55pm » |
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Thanks scorpio man.
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Re: Oil splattered all over the n/s/f wing
« Reply #9 on: May 25th, 2008, 5:34pm » |
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But what is this redundant pipe?
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Re: Oil splattered all over the n/s/f wing
« Reply #10 on: May 25th, 2008, 6:19pm » |
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Hi there the pipe iam talking about is the breather pipe that runs from the back of the engine on top oposite the filler cap that runs into the air filter box, dave
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Re: Oil splattered all over the n/s/f wing
« Reply #11 on: May 25th, 2008, 6:58pm » |
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Ok dave I'll check it. But what it the pipe that has been blanked of its got me puzzled.
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Re: Oil splattered all over the n/s/f wing
« Reply #12 on: May 25th, 2008, 8:27pm » |
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your car has a rad from a cossie on it by the look of it
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Re: Oil splattered all over the n/s/f wing
« Reply #13 on: May 25th, 2008, 8:46pm » |
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yeah thats a 24v rad, if it bothers you, you can fit the cossie header tank and just run the extra pipe back to the rad,
the ac broke on the aluminum joint just next to the ns head light
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Re: Oil splattered all over the n/s/f wing
« Reply #14 on: May 25th, 2008, 10:55pm » |
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No if it is ok I'll just leave it alone if it istn't doing any harm. But your comment about the ally joint interests me, could you be more precise please. Thanks.
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Re: Oil splattered all over the n/s/f wing
« Reply #15 on: May 25th, 2008, 11:13pm » |
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if you follow the ally pipe arrowed back into the engine bay, you'll find the crimp connection where the ally is conected to the rubber hosing,
that crimp connection on my 24v split there and covered the inner near side front wing in the ac gas (which has oil in it to lube the compressor), has a sort of solvent type smell compaired to the auto or engine oil which smells mineralally and is a greeny colour. if you look at the pic you posted, you can see the ally pipe on the left hand side of that pic, follow that along its length
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