A little oil leak that can suddenly become a gusher is no joke not least for your driveway but potentially dangerous for your engine, cam end seals are parts of the scheduled cambelt service but the impending oil gusher prompted the strip down in the pics below, noticed on a routine standard assessment the alternator and underside was awash with engine oil, stripping down to cam end seal point requires a fair bit of front engine strip down but it was clear where the oil was coming from.

 

The outer left hand exhaust cam seal was trickling from the lower part, it did not look a lot but had made a right mess. Its not the first time to see cam end seals leaking but this one was very unusual, the final picture shows the seal itself, it not the normal wear and tear but an odd displacement of the the spring lip retainer and the adjacent rubber looked almost melted, maybe badly installed previously....who knows? so after a clean up and new seals fitted it only left the corroded inlet hoses to be replaced! so if you have an oily alternator you know where to look.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Another top tip Jeff!!

 

Richard:rockon:

nice one

helpfull as usuall

great bit of advise! :thumbup: i take it the water inlet was replaced at the same time looks nasty!:sweatdrop:

 

dan.:thumbup1: