3.0 TDV6 broken crankshaft / engine rebuild

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Originally Posted by SimmAus

Hi Fabsky

How’s the engine running now? Did you resolve the small niggles?

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Hi,
problem solved obviously. The leak was caused by the oil pump. Threaded plug on top of pump plus no flat surface on pump housing. I have driven 10,000 km since rebuilding the engine and so far everything is working very well. In the meantime, I performed maintenance on the gearbox mechatronics, and flushing the entire system in the gearbox as well.

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Originally Posted by Fabsky

Hi,
problem solved obviously. The leak was caused by the oil pump. Threaded plug on top of pump plus no flat surface on pump housing........

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Originally Posted by RANDLOVER

.... a blanked off port on the Fomoco oil pump not sealed properly with thread tape, loctite, etc......

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Two is a co-incidence, three is a pattern, hope this doesn't happen to anyone else.