help mechanics of dunedin

shihad · Post by **shihad** » Sat Feb 21, 2009 10:39 pm

my 85 4age trueno is leaking oil from somewhere and im unsure where for some beer of your choice please come and diagnose my problem :lol:

.the car is in north dunedin. cheers

rwd_mayhem · Post by **rwd_mayhem** » Sun Feb 22, 2009 10:19 am

degrease the whole thing, run it for a bit and then look where it is coming from, it should be easy to see once its nice and clean.

Lloyd · Post by **Lloyd** » Sun Feb 22, 2009 10:21 am

4AGE is likely to be rocker cover gasket or distributor seal/oring. Clean up around those and see where the leaks coming from. Failing that, front seals if its at that end of the engine, or the rear main if its coming from between the engine and gearbox

shihad · Post by **shihad** » Sun Feb 22, 2009 10:32 am

interesting must be the rocker cover gasket and distributor seal so far but i dont think that explains why its on the alternator as well unless its landing on the belt and throwing the oil on to the alternator lol i will get some degrease 2day.

Lloyd · Post by **Lloyd** » Sun Feb 22, 2009 10:34 am

The stuff from Supercheap used to be $2-something a can and was actually pretty good stuff. Assuming they still do it cheap

shihad · Post by **shihad** » Mon Feb 23, 2009 9:54 am

it appears oil coming from the front of the motor just above the sump i cant see where its coming from and out of spark plug number 2 lol

JT · Post by JT » Mon Feb 23, 2009 4:25 pm

shihad wrote:it appears oil coming from the front of the motor just above the sump i cant see where its coming from and out of spark plug number 2 lol

It's not a big deal coming out the front, just annoying. How long till cambelt needs doing? Have to pull everything off to do seals so just do them when you do cambelt. Oil around spark plugs is probably just run off from not getting all the oil in the filler hole :wink:

shihad · Post by **shihad** » Mon Feb 23, 2009 6:53 pm

some was run off but when you run the motor it bubbles over the number 2 lead.was told motor was rebuilt recently so not 4 another 100km lol now i know why the guy told me to run shit oil haha.i drove down from gisborne oil was fine in hawks bay but could have developed the leak anywhere after that.after arriving in dunedin the next day i noticed a puddle of oil under the car checked oil and there was nothing so im praying that it had enough on the way down.

note after thinking about it some more it would have almost certainly been leaking on the way down and would have leaked the last of the oil when i parked up in dunedin as it was parked on the 4th street hill leaning forward.

cozmoid · Post by **cozmoid** » Mon Feb 23, 2009 8:33 pm

bummer bro. Hope it's ok.

shihad · Post by **shihad** » Mon Feb 23, 2009 9:40 pm

yea sounds like it has a tick or a knock im not sure maybe i have %&($&ed it.maybe im hearing things

cozmoid · Post by **cozmoid** » Mon Feb 23, 2009 10:24 pm

get someone u know to check it out. If not damien at graham page engine reconditioning is a toyota freak and would be able to give u a good idea by looking at it.

shihad · Post by **shihad** » Mon Feb 23, 2009 11:17 pm

cheers will do

shihad · Post by **shihad** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 4:30 pm

car is now at graham page engine reconditioning needs a new cambelt due to the oil all over it.the guy there said it could be the o ring around the oil pump.sigh my wallet will not be happy :oops:

Bling · Post by **Bling** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 5:22 pm

Look at it this way.... it will be happier than if the belt had slipped :lol:

rolla_fxgt · Post by **rolla_fxgt** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 8:16 pm

BZG|Bling wrote:Look at it this way.... it will be happier than if the belt had slipped

There always has to be one optimist doesn't there. I bet you'd still find a positive if an asteroid hit the earth :lol:

But sucks to here dude, hope its fixed soon, and isn't too much of a drain on the ol wallet

Stott69 · Post by **Stott69** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 8:41 pm

rolla_fxgt wrote:
BZG|Bling wrote:Look at it this way.... it will be happier than if the belt had slipped

There always has to be one optimist doesn't there. I bet you'd still find a positive if an asteroid hit the earth

But sucks to here dude, hope its fixed soon, and isn't too much of a drain on the ol wallet

at lest the boy racer problem would be solved?

Lloyd · Post by **Lloyd** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 8:51 pm

Boyracer problem?

Stott69 · Post by **Stott69** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 9:56 pm

the astaroid

barryogen · Post by **barryogen** » Wed Feb 25, 2009 11:11 am

man we have bad humour...

cozmoid · Post by **cozmoid** » Wed Feb 25, 2009 9:50 pm

shihad wrote:car is now at graham page engine reconditioning needs a new cambelt due to the oil all over it.the guy there said it could be the o ring around the oil pump.sigh my wallet will not be happy

Hey bro . I was talkin to the mechanics at graham page today. Sounds like you have a pretty sweet little ae85

Show us some pics. Im glad you took it to them as well as it sounds like ur car will be sorted nice an sweet. He was sayin the rattle will be easy to fix too

Rwd for life