Elmetadventurer
Member
Good evening,
This is my first post here!
I have recently purchased a freelander one TD4 2003. I was a bit naive and have some basic mechanic / car experience so thought I could have it for a bit of fun with the family and something to work on in the evening, however I’m a bit out of my depth now and disheartened!
I noticed it always had small patches of what would appear to be oil appearing after it had been running (the small dried 10cm patches in the picture). I suspected it was the breather filter so upgraded this part at the same time as the service parts.
I took it for a spin after doing all this, and left the under tray off. It was a bit of a longer spin than normal and put the engine under a bit more pressure changing gears a bit later than normal, I came back to this leaking all over the floor!!! Rather deflated!!! And my other half not impressed with the mess I’ve caused.
In trying to identify where it’s coming from, but can’t be sure if it’s oil, transmission fluid, diesel. Looking at the pictures does anyone have an idea of identifying what this fluid might be? My suspicion is it’s engine oil. It’s such a mess under the engine it’s difficult to identify where it’s coming from, I’m in the process of cleaning it all but it look like it’s coming from somewhere in the middle of the engine out of view!
thanks,
Sam
This is my first post here!
I have recently purchased a freelander one TD4 2003. I was a bit naive and have some basic mechanic / car experience so thought I could have it for a bit of fun with the family and something to work on in the evening, however I’m a bit out of my depth now and disheartened!
I noticed it always had small patches of what would appear to be oil appearing after it had been running (the small dried 10cm patches in the picture). I suspected it was the breather filter so upgraded this part at the same time as the service parts.
I took it for a spin after doing all this, and left the under tray off. It was a bit of a longer spin than normal and put the engine under a bit more pressure changing gears a bit later than normal, I came back to this leaking all over the floor!!! Rather deflated!!! And my other half not impressed with the mess I’ve caused.
In trying to identify where it’s coming from, but can’t be sure if it’s oil, transmission fluid, diesel. Looking at the pictures does anyone have an idea of identifying what this fluid might be? My suspicion is it’s engine oil. It’s such a mess under the engine it’s difficult to identify where it’s coming from, I’m in the process of cleaning it all but it look like it’s coming from somewhere in the middle of the engine out of view!
thanks,
Sam