Hi Folks
In my earlier posts, a mere three days after I bought it, my camshaft decided to retire, and for almost a month (albeit over christmas) it went into a landrover specialist to be repaired.
Camshaft was done, engine runs lovely and the purr of the V8 is superb!
However, it developed an oil leak during the rebuild...and it cannot be traced. I had lost a bit of faith in the specialist and decided to take the car away anyway. They believed it was engine oil as it was running clear which would match fresh oil after the rebuild....however I have religiously checked the oil levels and it hasn't moved a millimetre in 2 weeks.
I decided to put it into another specialist, and paid £60 to be told they also couldn't trace the leak, but believed it to be the gearbox oil cooling pipes, however as there was so much oil sprayed on the bottom, they would need it cleaned before they could really tell.
I cleaned the engine yesterday, and decided to check the levels in the gearbox and top up, if it was the oil cooler that was leaking. Bearing in mind the car was slightly elevated at the front, when I took out the fill plug, it spewed oil.
So, newbie question one: Should there be as much oil as that in the gearbox?..I would have thought it would have been definitely below the fill lip as the car was elevated at the front.
Question two: Does the cooler take oil from the gearbox and cool it, or simply pass through the gearbox to cool it? (Pipe inside similar to an element)
Question three: are there any other oil reservoirs that I should be checking?
I'm getting fearful of using it in-case something goes crunch and costs me a fortune.
Thanks for all your help in advance
Dougie
In my earlier posts, a mere three days after I bought it, my camshaft decided to retire, and for almost a month (albeit over christmas) it went into a landrover specialist to be repaired.
Camshaft was done, engine runs lovely and the purr of the V8 is superb!
However, it developed an oil leak during the rebuild...and it cannot be traced. I had lost a bit of faith in the specialist and decided to take the car away anyway. They believed it was engine oil as it was running clear which would match fresh oil after the rebuild....however I have religiously checked the oil levels and it hasn't moved a millimetre in 2 weeks.
I decided to put it into another specialist, and paid £60 to be told they also couldn't trace the leak, but believed it to be the gearbox oil cooling pipes, however as there was so much oil sprayed on the bottom, they would need it cleaned before they could really tell.
I cleaned the engine yesterday, and decided to check the levels in the gearbox and top up, if it was the oil cooler that was leaking. Bearing in mind the car was slightly elevated at the front, when I took out the fill plug, it spewed oil.
So, newbie question one: Should there be as much oil as that in the gearbox?..I would have thought it would have been definitely below the fill lip as the car was elevated at the front.
Question two: Does the cooler take oil from the gearbox and cool it, or simply pass through the gearbox to cool it? (Pipe inside similar to an element)
Question three: are there any other oil reservoirs that I should be checking?
I'm getting fearful of using it in-case something goes crunch and costs me a fortune.
Thanks for all your help in advance
Dougie
