Oil Leak Help...

[lamborgini8]

I posted a few days back about oil leaking from the PAS tank but I just followed the pipes through properly and it seams to be bigger than I thought...

Pipe from tank past battery

Pipe going into PAS pump

It's not spilling its fluid everywhere, in fact I just checked all the tanks under the bonnet and all are at their maximum lines.

Any ideas what the problem could be?

 

[Trainerbrow]

CV Rubber split?

 

[saltyhair81]

yeah looks like the boots split. Not had it serviced recently? Sometimes they overfill them

 

[lamborgini8]

yeah looks like the boots split. Not had it serviced recently? Sometimes they overfill them

It hasn't been serviced for quite some time... I haven't had the money for it.

I had to fill up the PAS tank a month or two back because the fluid mysteriously vanished. I guess the PAS tank is very slightly overfilled, but not by much... that wouldn't cause it would it?

Is this an easy fix, something I can do myself? Or is it going to be a garage job?

 

[Trainerbrow]

You can do it yourself, but for the price of a driveshaft, and the ballache of changing the boot on it, just buy a reconshaft

 

[lamborgini8]

You can do it yourself, but for the price of a driveshaft, and the ballache of changing the boot on it, just buy a reconshaft

Wait hang on, I just googled this and its going on about the axles. The leak I have is between the fluid tank and the input to the PAS pump.

If it is what you say, I just spoke to my mate who is a mechanic and aparently the part is about £10 but probally wont stop the leak entirely.

 

[Trainerbrow]

well if the pas tank isnt loosing any fluid, its not that leaking is it.