Hi!
Not so good news.
Not long ago I reportet my work done about the "triangle of death" alias
"the oily trinity".
As the weather was about OK on sunday, I took it for a
spin around town, also to do the check up on my resetted
oil cooler upgrade.
Just about home, stopping at a traffic light, I noticed that well known and feared smell of freshly burnt oil evaporation on the hot engine block and heat exchangers.
Comming home I parked the car directly backwards into the garage to my working position and looked under it:
- very obvious drip at engine case just below cyl.6
- oil dripped on heat exchanger that found its way from below cyl.6
I instantly thaught that I'd done something wrong in my previous work (trinity).
So I jacked the car up, jacked the engine, loosened the engine mounts, dropped the engine 5cm, took of the aircover, and sneek-peeked with light and mirror behind the intake. trinity looks shiny and fresh, everything tight, dry and in place.
good, but damn nontheless!
I guess that leaves me with the engine oil cooler seal rings to bother about(?).
"why on earth didn't he change these seals a week ago, when he had everything accessible?!" you might say.
Well, thats what I'm reproaching myslef now too.
The focus on the trinity as the culprit for previous oil spill distracted me.
Just ordered the seals and I'll work on that as of this evening.
The weird thing is, I didn't have this oil leak-/drip pattern before.
Maybe it's because I cleaned everything up, the oil leaking now flows better?
It's so anoying... :-(