Hi there
We've bought a 300tdi engine for a defender from a land rover breakers. We fired it up and sounded really good considering it hadn't been used for over 6 months. But we noticed it had a oil leak were the block meets on the timing belt assembly (not the timing belt cover gasket if that makes sense) with further inspection we noticed as we.lifted the dipstick it was blowing slightly when on tick over and got a lot worse when reving the engine as did the leak on the gasket.
If we take the oil filler cap off and rev the engine both the leak and the dipstick don't leak or spray, so it's almost that's releasing the pressure. We've inspected the 2 breather pipes on the rocker cover that are on the left of the engine and they seem ok as if we hold our thumbs on them there is a release of pressure once off. So it's almost like the breathers are either not working propley or worse piston rings....
just wondering if it was normal/common for the dipstick to sprinkle out oil when reving or if there any way to increase the breather to release the pressure off and to repair the gasket (as long the excess pressure didn't cause the leak in the 1st place or cause it again in future or we'll try get our money back).
Many thanks
We've bought a 300tdi engine for a defender from a land rover breakers. We fired it up and sounded really good considering it hadn't been used for over 6 months. But we noticed it had a oil leak were the block meets on the timing belt assembly (not the timing belt cover gasket if that makes sense) with further inspection we noticed as we.lifted the dipstick it was blowing slightly when on tick over and got a lot worse when reving the engine as did the leak on the gasket.
If we take the oil filler cap off and rev the engine both the leak and the dipstick don't leak or spray, so it's almost that's releasing the pressure. We've inspected the 2 breather pipes on the rocker cover that are on the left of the engine and they seem ok as if we hold our thumbs on them there is a release of pressure once off. So it's almost like the breathers are either not working propley or worse piston rings....
just wondering if it was normal/common for the dipstick to sprinkle out oil when reving or if there any way to increase the breather to release the pressure off and to repair the gasket (as long the excess pressure didn't cause the leak in the 1st place or cause it again in future or we'll try get our money back).
Many thanks
