Thread: 3.0 TDV6 broken crankshaft / engine rebuild

Originally Posted by SimmAus

Hi Fabsky

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

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.

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........

Originally Posted by RANDLOVER

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

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