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YOUR RESEARCHC4S annoying engine oil leak
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Had the RMS, IMS seal and bolts replaced but it still leaks.
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The encapsualtion provided on the IMS bracket bolts is often insufficiently thick to seal the threads so add some silicon and see how it goes - if it still leaks probably the seal around the bracket.
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The encapsualtion provided on the IMS bracket bolts is often insufficiently thick to seal the threads so add some silicon and see how it goes - if it still leaks probably the seal around the bracket.
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My engine oil weeps, but only when the engine oil level is 'full'.
Had the RMS, IMS seal and bolts replaced but it still leaks. The RMS was chnged twice, just to make sure that it wasn't the cause.
Any ideas?
:dont know:
Is it still coming from the RMS area, or somewhere else? I can't see why the oil level would make any difference to an RMS leak. The oil level in the sump is w-a-y below that.
opcorn:
... Ooh, now I'm intrigued.
My money is on either:
1) Richard H has been sabotaging rhenders car (you haven't been "wife swapping" again have you?)
or
2) That's the patented "Mobil-Porsche" oil leak valve they fit to all their cars. Operated on an automatic intra-service timer or optional remote from OPC within 30 mile radio transmission radius, to be triggered when monthly billings are down.
LOL! Nothing that complicated. That's just a picture of a typical RMS/IMS oil leak, and that bolt is where it usually drips from. It's just a pipe clamp that is at the lowest point.
oil leak
Hi
are you sure the leaks not from the bolts on the intermediate shaft housing. the bolt holes are not blind. so they go right through into the sump/oil resevoiir, if they leak then it comes out of the same place and can be confused with the RMS. Porsche do a special encapsulated bolt to cure this leak.
Just a thought!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The encapsualtion provided on the IMS bracket bolts is often insufficiently thick to seal the threads so add some silicon and see how it goes - if it still leaks probably the seal around the bracket.
Baz
