[Fot] Triumph and Oil

Glenn Franco gaf3 at charter.net
Sat Mar 10 13:11:43 MST 2012


Fastest way to find the source is to clean off the area with brake clean 
and let it flash off and dry out.
Spray the area with a white talc, preferably an aerosol or just use baby 
powder.
Start the engine and immediately look for the start of the wet spot.
This is an easy fast way to trace your leaks and cheaper than a black 
light and leak check fluid.
Glenn
On 3/10/2012 10:36 AM, Bobby Whitehead wrote:
> After my wonderful weekend at TWS my little GT6 was showing more of the "marking
> of the territory" than I really liked... the source, I thought was coming from
> the ARE replacement front engine cover... someone in the re-assembly process
> (not me) had stripped out one of the mounting holes, even tapping a larger bolt
> to attach the timing cover. It's a short bolt that holds the timing cover only,
> not meant to attach to the block. Fortunately I had a spare and even though I
> didn't want to pull the timing cover and timing chain off, I methodically
> removed and carefully marked the timing chain to the crank. I used the flimsy
> thin paper gasket between the front of the block and the engine cover. I did not
> slather it with gasket material. After the fact I noticed I have some thicker
> gaskets, almost 3 times as thick. Re-assembled and thank goodness I didn't screw
> up the timing, but now I have more oil leaking from the front of the engine.
> It's either my flimsy seal or the oil pan is leaking up front. Sleepless nights
> realizing if the oil pan is leaking I have to pull the whole engine/transmission
> to get the oil pan off or try the thicker engine to engine cover gasket...
> thoughts?    Bobby Whitehead



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