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Offline shmed

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mysterious oil leak found...
« on: September 06 2013, 06:06:23 PM »
well after looking for what seems to be forever  i finally located my oil leak... 
the damm plastic line that comes with the oil pressure gauge sprung a leak under the coil pack.
the fix..
copper yes a roll of soft copper..  bye bye oil leak
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Re: mysterious oil leak found...
« Reply #1 on: September 06 2013, 08:39:15 PM »
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Re: mysterious oil leak found...
« Reply #2 on: September 06 2013, 08:45:07 PM »
always figured copper would work harden and crack....that is the reason it is a no no for fuel lines
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Re: mysterious oil leak found...
« Reply #3 on: September 06 2013, 08:51:22 PM »
VDO used to include copper lines for their oil pressure gauges... had to tin a few ferrules to the line after it cracked and needed to be reamed out.  But, that was more from my mishandling of parts.

That copper line is still in the car attached to a pressure transducer.
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Re: mysterious oil leak found...
« Reply #4 on: September 06 2013, 10:45:51 PM »
Went copper after the same thing happened to me 25 yrs ago, copper still working today...


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Re: mysterious oil leak found...
« Reply #5 on: September 07 2013, 09:46:59 AM »
Copper oil pressure line for 20 years here, no problems.
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Re: mysterious oil leak found...
« Reply #6 on: September 07 2013, 10:06:09 AM »
nylon line for 25+ years, no problems here.....

Oh, the science of it!

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