Advice Required! Rear main oil seal & Starter query
Posted: 06 Apr 2013, 20:36
Evening all! Well, i picked up the camper from Dorset today and drove it the 160 miles home, the van drove beautifully and smoothly with no knocks, bangs or rattles and the heaters worked amazingly well with a perfect engine temperature and whilst i would like to say it was an uneventful journey, unfortunately it wasn't and there were a couple of little niggles which i was strangely expecting!
My mate who was travelling behind me flagged me down to pull into the upcoming services at Fleet (about half way home) and once stopped there said there was oil appearing onto his windscreen! We looked underneath the van and saw there was oil dripping down onto the floor. It had lost approximately 1 litre of oil which i topped back up to max and stopped at a further two services to check the levels and, whilst there was still a leak, there was luckily only minimal loss. My mate who is a mechanic has stated that it is the rear main oil seal and so i would appreciate any advice on where would be the best place to purchase a replacement and whether it is worth me getting/replacing anything else as well whilst this job is being done?
Secondly, the van struggles to re-start immediately after the engine has been turned off and turns over very slowly. Once left for a few minutes it starts, although it is still slow at turning over - the earth strap on the battery was very hot and so the next course of action is to clean this up, however, i wondered as to whether this could also be a starter problem?!
Any help and advice on the above would be much appreciated!!
And, so it goes - this is my first T25 and yeah, the dog-leg gearbox made me stall a few times and there and there were a few issues on my way home and have i got the hump, no siree!! The sun was out and I still had a grin all the way home and my 5 year old's face was priceless as i parked up onto the drive - great days ahead!!
My mate who was travelling behind me flagged me down to pull into the upcoming services at Fleet (about half way home) and once stopped there said there was oil appearing onto his windscreen! We looked underneath the van and saw there was oil dripping down onto the floor. It had lost approximately 1 litre of oil which i topped back up to max and stopped at a further two services to check the levels and, whilst there was still a leak, there was luckily only minimal loss. My mate who is a mechanic has stated that it is the rear main oil seal and so i would appreciate any advice on where would be the best place to purchase a replacement and whether it is worth me getting/replacing anything else as well whilst this job is being done?
Secondly, the van struggles to re-start immediately after the engine has been turned off and turns over very slowly. Once left for a few minutes it starts, although it is still slow at turning over - the earth strap on the battery was very hot and so the next course of action is to clean this up, however, i wondered as to whether this could also be a starter problem?!
Any help and advice on the above would be much appreciated!!
And, so it goes - this is my first T25 and yeah, the dog-leg gearbox made me stall a few times and there and there were a few issues on my way home and have i got the hump, no siree!! The sun was out and I still had a grin all the way home and my 5 year old's face was priceless as i parked up onto the drive - great days ahead!!