Oil leak.

**RRT** · 4th December 2021, 07:52 AM

Originally Posted by Discofender

Hi Rymnd,

I didn't try with the turbo in place, but having a quick look I think it could be possible by reaching up from underneath. You may need to be a bit of a contortionist.

Cheers Discofender

Would think the top right bolts would be very difficult with turbo insitu, having removed and replacing it a couple of times over the last few months. May be a good opportunity to replace the turbo innards as an upgrade when it is out - will be doing the D2a oil cooler and water pump when I change the turbo innards as a matter of course. The water pump on the D2 on a well serviced vehicle was a complete surprise!!

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**onebob** · 5th December 2021, 05:20 PM

Originally Posted by RRT

Would think the top right bolts would be very difficult with turbo insitu, having removed and replacing it a couple of times over the last few months. May be a good opportunity to replace the turbo innards as an upgrade when it is out - will be doing the D2a oil cooler and water pump when I change the turbo innards as a matter of course. The water pump on the D2 on a well serviced vehicle was a complete surprise!!

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Hmmmm… something had gone very wrong with the coolant balance and or composition during the engine’s lifetime. It should be looking better than that. Mine has had 450,000km+ on OAT coolant and the water pump came out looking new.

**RRT** · 6th December 2021, 06:16 AM

Originally Posted by onebob

Hmmmm… something had gone very wrong with the coolant balance and or composition during the engine’s lifetime. It should be looking better than that. Mine has had 450,000km+ on OAT coolant and the water pump came out looking new.

As the engine only has 260 and at one stage had a head change as well, was not good!!

**reefmagnet** · 6th December 2021, 12:57 PM

My car has about the same k's and what appears to be a newish head too. I know for a fact the PO thought swamp water made good coolant. With its tendency to run warmish, I reckon the water pump will look very similar.

**Tins** · 6th December 2021, 08:02 PM

Originally Posted by Rymnd

So trying to see if there are any low-hanging fruit here!

On a D2??? D2s are giraffe territory

**Rymnd** · 7th December 2021, 12:20 PM

Too true!! :-)

Originally Posted by Tins

On a D2??? D2s are giraffe territory

**Rymnd** · 14th January 2022, 12:54 PM

So took turbo off as I replaced oil. cooler as well, replaced seals and gaskets and put turbo back.

Now I can seem to get socket and torque wrench in to torque turbo to exhaust manifold.

Any ideas or wisdom or special tools? 😊

Originally Posted by Rymnd

Who'd have thought, my D2 has an oil leak. :-)

I've had a leak since I bought it, but now - again - trying to pinpoint and fix.

Here's a pic taken under blue light and the green is the bit of oil damming up. It doesn't appear to be from the filter or centrifugal filter housing, as I had changed them a while back and they were dry.

Any thoughts about this?

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Top right bolts and take the opportunity to change out the waterpump as well

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