182 is crying a little bit

[paul]

Not my engine bay...mines much cleaner

i have a very small oil leak in the location of the red arrow...ive checked the cap and all seems to be ok! it isnt using enough oil to warrent really going to the dealer or to worry about really .....just wondered what you guys thought

I know there is always talk about the 182/172 leaking near the top and fred has said that almost all do it!! a very small amout of oil lays just in the grove below the arrow (the bit you cant see)

any thoughts

thanks Paul

 

[Russ_16v]

is it from the cap mate or down by rocker cover? as the r/c gaskets weep

 

[paul]

is it from the cap mate or down by rocker cover? as the r/c gaskets weep

ive checked the cap and seems ok...:S this does look like the place it could be coming from though!! :S

 

[Russ_16v]

could it be forcing its way past the cap? if its under the inlet manifold then most tend to do it,mines got a few lil oil marks,but doesnt use a drop so im not worrying

 

[paul]

could it be forcing its way past the cap? if its under the inlet manifold then most tend to do it,mines got a few lil oil marks,but doesnt use a drop so im not worrying

i havent a clue! thanks for your help though...everytime i clean it off it apears - no more than a quater of a tea spoon full - just layes there below the cap :S

 

[paul]

checked everything and it looks like it might be coming from one of the nuts just below the cap- can you just tighten it up :S

Any help is much appreciated

cheers Paul

 

[Rich]

I would be dubious of over tightening reading what others have said in the past

http://www.cliosport.net/forum/showthread.php?t=250368&highlight=182+Oil+Leak

 

[paul]

small nut under the arrow

 

[paul]

I would be dubious of over tightening reading what others have said in the past

http://www.cliosport.net/forum/showthread.php?t=250368&highlight=182+Oil+Leak

dont know what to do now...leave it...get is looked at when serviced :S

If i had bought another full fat lol it would have had a cover so i wouldnt have seen the very small leak

 

[Mark5290]

The oil leak is most likely the cam cover seal, the cam cover is sealed using silicon sealant, no gasket iirc, what it appears to me is that when the seal fails (or never sealed properly in the first place) small amounts of oil can pass from inside the cam cover into the bolt holes for the cam cover, then up the bolts and appearing around the bolt heads, oil will also be noticeable at the front and back of the cam cover near the cam belt cover, if your brake fluid reservoir cap is oily, the cam cover seal will most likely be weeping.

The proper fix is to remove the cam cover and re-seal, but i have heard of some dealers just removing 1 cam bolt at a time and putting loctite under the bolt head to stop oil weeping from that area.

 

[paul]

thats the bolt / were the oil lays thanks Mark

 

[fUbAr]

its fine, someone at Renault was paid to design it like that