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Ian Hulley wrote:

eddie.eagles wrote:

VWCamperfan wrote:Thats on the bottom of the bellhousing. Probably the flywheel seal gone, leaking down and coming out of the drain-hole.

Is that bad......ie expensive and hard to do....

IF it's gone ..

Box out, flywheel off, replace (very cheap) seal, possibly replace spigot bearing while you can see it, replace clutch (with new) refit gearbox etc and away you go.

Was the clutch slipping ?

Ian

No Ian, its not been slipping at all not too or from the cotswolds last weekend. It is definitely coming out of that drain hole, I kept wiping it to check. Only does it when warm though!!

Bugger! Don't you just hate it when someone else answers the question while you're still typing.

Yes Mart! Oh this doesn't sound good. Definitely a job for someone else then and sounds EXPENSIVE!

Just as a last resort sort of thing... Try this:-

http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/stor ... yId_165750" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I have used it in the past with superb results. Takes a few miles to work but it does what is says on the tin!

Worth a try. Stop leak and thicker oil. Worked on mine for a while but the clutch was already contaminated and slipping so I had to swap it out.

eddie.eagles wrote:Yes Mart! Oh this doesn't sound good. Definitely a job for someone else then and sounds EXPENSIVE!

The clutch is not a bad price. I think it cost me 80 odd quid for the full kit. It's the labour that'll kill ya mate. I'm lucky that I have a local mechanic that I've used for years. He works in a little shed for sandwich money. Cost me 200 quid for the whole job including the price of the clutch.

cheers Mark and Mart, I'll give that a go but as oil has been pi**ing out and I have done a couple of hundred miles without it slipping I'm ever hopeful.....

You might be ok mate. Mine was leaking for months before it started slipping and I just kept topping it up.

I think its always leaked from there a bit but seems to have suddenly increased. Again, maybe the oil has just hit that very runny stage! Does anyone know the correct filter from halfords?

As 2nd gear pops out occasionally I will try and wait until I can get the gearbox and clutch done in one......

Typical, all happened when I mot'd it!!

C'mon Eddie...use a bit of applied Sherlock Holmes style deduction....
Van comes back from VW specialist menders who didn't say "done the work you asked for, oh and by the way it's pissin oil everywhere"
Goes for MOT re-test later the same day ...MOT guy didn't say " It's passed mate, oh and by the way it's pissin oil everywhere"
You take it to Kwik-Krap for a 'free oil top up'....hard of thinking employee gives your bus a bloody good dose of best modern synthetic oil...
Shortly after....it's pissin oil everywhere!!
Fill her back up with proper gloopy oil and see what happens!
Five of your finest earth pounds says the leak will go back to it's former 'territorial marking' status.

Hi, my flywheel seal leaked for over a year before I got a local VW specialist to change it for me. The van always left a small pool of oil wherever I parked it. Luckily my clutch never started slipping and the garage gave the clutch plate the thumbs up when they had it apart. As I found out recently some of the oil that leaked into the bell-housing ended up in the starter motor hastening its demise.
I was losing over a litre or oil every 200 miles so in twelve months I spent more on oil than it cost to get the leak fixed. Doh!

BOXY wrote:Hi, my flywheel seal leaked for over a year before I got a local VW specialist to change it for me. The van always left a small pool of oil wherever I parked it. Luckily my clutch never started slipping and the garage gave the clutch plate the thumbs up when they had it apart. As I found out recently some of the oil that leaked into the bell-housing ended up in the starter motor hastening its demise.
I was losing over a litre or oil every 200 miles so in twelve months I spent more on oil than it cost to get the leak fixed. Doh!

I never thought of that way B oxy!

As per above comments I now have a new addition to the engine...a smaller socket hammered onto sump plug! Changed the oil with halfords classic, plus oil filter and bunged some engine leak stuff in. Only ran it a bit to get warm but other than a small drip of dirty oil that is probably left on the bell housing it likes like those changes have been a huge improvement. The real test will be when I take it for a good run! Cheers again to everyone!

Hoping to get mine sorted at the weekend. Fitting new heat exchangers so I'm going to fit new pushrod tube seals and rocker gaskets while I'm at it. Hopfully that will do the trick.

Good luck with that one Mart, you'll be nice and toasty then!