Re: 20vt Oil Leak

["Fred Munro" <munrof@isys.ca>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Huw Powell <human@nh.ultranet.com>
To: Wolff <wolff_b@ix.netcom.com>; quattro group <quattro@coimbra.ans.net>
Date: Sunday, July 05, 1998 3:38 PM
Subject: Re: 20vt Oil Leak


>>  When idling it didn't seem to be leaking. I'm thinking that
>> it has a leak in a place that allows the oil to accumulate externally
>> and when the car tilted up in the driveway, the oil ran off quickly.
>
>My ole 5kt used to leak oil at the cork cam cover gasket, onto the
>intake manifold where it would build up - until I stopped hard, when it
>would spill forward onto the (usually by then) hot turbocharger.  Cool
>clouds of black smoke would billow forth from the grille and RF wheel
>well...
>
>--
>Huw Powell
>


    There is a drain line at the rear of this catchment tray which should
drain this oil off. I think the tray setup is designed to collect fuel from
any leakage around the injectors and drain it away from the hot exhaust
manifold. If oil from a cam cover leak is pooling in the tray and slopping
over, the drain line is probably plugged.

Fred Munro

'91 200q  255k km