You can never get bored with Zed engines that's for sure, with the right hand cambelt cover removed on this one it looked like an oil tanker had dropped its cargo off in there! seen this many times but not with no evidence of the leak before the cover was removed.

 

 

More dismantling and it gets no better!!

 

The inside of the plastic covers where dripping!

 

So a strip down to check out the cam seals was in order.

 

The pulleys, tensioner, sprockets etc. all removed for degreasing

 

All cleaned and refitted sorted it out

 

 

The cambelt was in very poor condition ( old ) and the oil has made it feel really odd, it looked set to let go anytime!

 

New owner has leaned a lesson really early in this Z ownership, the odd thing was there was no real give away that the leak was so bad, usually with leaking cam seals oil shows out but not here, the right hand cam cover is not too bad to release ( not fully remove) and maybe a good idea to add this quick check to say your annual service.

 

Jeff TT

Eeeuuuggghhhh!-lucky guy!:ohmy:

I have a feeling mine is doing something very similar to that :-(

I have a feeling mine is doing something very similar to that :-(

 

Oh boy, with the weekender in 4 days as well :scared:

thanks for the info, pics and the heads-up jeff, i know that my camcover will be coming off in the next few days!

 

Better to be safe than sorry with cambelts i think.

Oh boy, with the weekender in 4 days as well :scared:

 

Ohh its not bothering me don't worry, the engine only has to see me to the winter and I dont think its any where on the scale of that yet, i started getting a few drips and a bit of oil showing up on the plastic covers.