So I got back from R17's hairdressers meet at PO Portsmouth to find a small oily deposit in the garage beneath my 356. It did look like it had come from the rear pulley but this could not be as I had only just replaced this chappie a week or so ago. The oil leak was in that area and I deduced it was coming from the oil pump. I loosened off the shrouding around the rear of the engine and pulled out the oil pump. It didn't look bad but one thing I did notice was the exposed tach drive. I run an electric tach so the cable running up to the original gauge is redundant, I removed the cable when I was restoring the car. I thought I should fit a blank thread over the tach outlet and this I did. I cut out a new gasket for the oil pump and stuck it all back on the motor. So the acid test will be on Sunday when the old dog is out to the Haslemere classic car event. As soon as we are parked I shall be out and underneath with my torch to check if the problem has been solved. Fingers crossed.
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Oil on the outside - not good
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ignatzcatz said:So I got back from R17's hairdressers meet at PO Portsmouth to find a small oily deposit in the garage beneath my 356. It did look like it had come from the rear pulley but this could not be as I had only just replaced this chappie a week or so ago. The oil leak was in that area and I deduced it was coming from the oil pump. I loosened off the shrouding around the rear of the engine and pulled out the oil pump. It didn't look bad but one thing I did notice was the exposed tach drive. I run an electric tach so the cable running up to the original gauge is redundant, I removed the cable when I was restoring the car. I thought I should fit a blank thread over the tach outlet and this I did. I cut out a new gasket for the oil pump and stuck it all back on the motor. So the acid test will be on Sunday when the old dog is out to the Haslemere classic car event. As soon as we are parked I shall be out and underneath with my torch to check if the problem has been solved. Fingers crossed.
GOOD LUCK hope it works
It was the tach drive off the oil pump. So it's now got a nice clean botty. Job done! Next problem is the non functioning electric oil pressure gauge. I've been talking to Autometer in the States whose gauge it is and they reckon I have a duff sender but as a new sender is $110 and this isn't certain as the gauge itself might be at fault, and as a new mechanical gauge is only $89 I might just get the mech oil pressure gauge even if it does mean running a pipe from the engine up to the dash. Decisions, decisions.
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