(Another) Oil Leak

[Bigsidavies]

Had a good search and can’t find anything similar.
Van was oil-leak free when I painted my calipers in May just before Bala camp.
It’s now covered in oil on the offside below the timing belt cover.
In at the garage today for timing belt, water pump, crank pulley oil seal and a full service.
Had a phone call to say that the oil leak is above the oil seal and without stripping more stuff off it’s hard to tell where from due to the amount of dirt and oil that’s there.
So plan is, full service, degrease and clean all the engine and return next week to investigate oil leak.
Garage thinks it’s from around the head area and not from near the turbo (CXEB engine).
Any suggestions as to where it might be coming from? There’s deffo no oil/water cross contamination.
We can have a guess and see who gets it right.

 

[Dellmassive]

They are sure it's not the crankshaft front main seal?

Got any pics of the leak?

Any idea how much oil you been loosing?

 

[Bigsidavies]

They’ve had the cover off to do the crank pulley oil seal today and reckon it’s coming from above and behind, hence not doing that job until there is certainty. In their words ‘it’s as if someone has spilled oil when topping up’. That’s the area that it has come down from.
However, I did the last oil change and the last top up and I was meticulous with my little funnel.
Just looked through the wheel and everything is very clean so should show up soon enough.
I’m going back after Busfest to get it on the ramp for another look and move forward from there.
It’s using very little oil. In the last 7000 miles it’s taken 1 litre and that was put in as two seperate top ups of half a litre each.
First top up was before the oil leak and the second about a month ago.

 

[Dundee_Kev]

I've seen the seals around the injectors leaking and making its way down to crank area.

 

[The Flying Scotsman]

I've seen the seals around the injectors leaking and making its way down to crank area.

How you getting on with your camper Kevin?
You back on the road?

 

[Dundee_Kev]

How you getting on with your camper Kevin?
You back on the road?

Yeah, all mobile. It's been down kintyre for a week and week around the the nc500 area. And the odd weekends here and there. So it's got a good 1.5k miles since it's cheap repair!! Luckily it only cost me parts and no labour. If there was labour, it would've been parts. Labour and a my own life I think!

Back on topic, I replaced my injector seals on the cam cover as they were leaking. A few quid for the 4 seals was nowt in comparison to 4 injectors, high and low pressure pumps etc etc!

 

[Stefan]

Hope its ok hijacking this thread instead of making new post.

In the 1st photo, is this pipe coming from intercooler or i’m mistaken? Its near the cambelt side. Also do i clean it with some brake cleaner and monitor it further if still leaks or gets worse?
2nd photo, never had the crank end seal done so far, van on 101k miles, had the cambelt and wp changed at 69k in 2020, do i clean it off and monitor it further? Also shall i change the cambelt and wp according to new schedule (130-140k miles) or keep in mind the “time” schedule too?

 

[Dellmassive]

Hope its ok hijacking this thread instead of making new post.
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In the 1st photo, is this pipe coming from intercooler or i’m mistaken? Its near the cambelt side. Also do i clean it with some brake cleaner and monitor it further if still leaks or gets worse?
2nd photo, never had the crank end seal done so far, van on 101k miles, had the cambelt and wp changed at 69k in 2020, do i clean it off and monitor it further? Also shall i change the cambelt and wp according to new schedule (130-140k miles) or keep in mind the “time” schedule too?

Clean and monitor.

Tb and wp done so leave them for now