burning oil, stinking up the garage

[stone43]

Gotta oil leak in the Carerra. Pissing the wife off as she wants me to get rid of it and get a Bimmer convertible. She likes the reliability factor of new cars. (she does not get it) But, the P-car is not helping my case.

I have found a few drip marks on the garage floor, right side (if you were standing behind the car). Oil consumption is not bad, but this car does smell up a storm after my usual ride home from work. Pulled out the Maglight and could not find anything obvious.

Any suggestions?

[Rot 911]

9 times out of 10 the cause is leaking oil return tubes. Replace them and make your wife happy.

[widebody911]

Here's what I do:

• buy a bunch of your favorite degrease - Castrol SuperClean for me
• crank water heater to "Nuclear"
• hook up garden hose to it
• put rear of car as high as possible on jackstands
• douse engine and trans with degrease from underneath. don't be shy!
• let sit for 15-20 mintues
• lather it up again
• let sit again
• once the water heater has your water up to temp, hose it all of with the scalding hot water
• lather, rise, repeat until you can eat off of it.
• in a day or so, the location of your leak will be more apparent