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[MB]

G'day Rainsey, what a bugger mate!
I believe there is an old school trick to finding sneaky small oil leaks using talcum powder and following the snail trails to its source.
Hope it all works out for you mate, keep us all posted once you've found the bugger mate!
Cheers MB

[peterc99]

Hi Rainsey, its a pita for such a new conversion. What oil pressure are you seeing? The front crank seal on mine has been replaced recently (out of warranty) the crank appears to have a small groove worn into it, which means it will probably leak again.
Has anyone else had this problem on the 6.5 Optimiser?

Regards

Peter

[the evil twin]

@rainsey are you sure it is in fact an engine oil leak. Had trouble locating a stubborn leak in The Pig and turned out to be tiny split in a hose on power steering pump.
Mixed with crud, corruption and greasy bits it looked an awful lot like engine oil on the ground! Worth looking further about engine bay!

Funny you mention that... the two leaks on my 6.5 were, 1 as you described, not engine at all but grotty power steering fluid... and 2 from the Turbo oil return.

[rainsey]

where are you located again?

Central Coast NSW


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[rainsey]

@rainsey are you sure it is in fact an engine oil leak. Had trouble locating a stubborn leak in The Pig and turned out to be tiny split in a hose on power steering pump.
Mixed with crud, corruption and greasy bits it looked an awful lot like engine oil on the ground! Worth looking further about engine bay!

When the lack first displayed itself it looked like it was under the power steering pump.Was definitely not power steering fluid though. Definitely engine oil.

Thanks for the response.


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[rainsey]

Hi Rainsey, its a pita for such a new conversion. What oil pressure are you seeing? The front crank seal on mine has been replaced recently (out of warranty) the crank appears to have a small groove worn into it, which means it will probably leak again.
Has anyone else had this problem on the 6.5 Optimiser?

Regards

Peter

Peter,

Oil pressure on start up is around the 60 PSI on full operating temp, 10. The front crank seal was the first thing replaced. The surface on the crank is as pure as they come so this is not it.

Thanks heaps though for the info.


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[rainsey]

Has the oil fill point been checked its sealing? Timing cover in front of the injection pump?

Yep, all give the clean bill of health.

Ta heaps.


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[rainsey]

Totally different question. Any one put a hydraulic winch on their 6.5 using a separate hydraulic pump? Curious where the pump has been put.

Cheers
Rainsey


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[MB]

Don't know much about them Rainsey but these belt driven ones in QLD look pretty descent?
http://www.redwinchqld.com.au/catego...-hydraulics/9/
Personally sticking with electric down here just in case the donk is ever unfortunately swamped/dead I've still got batteries hopefully to haul to safer ground in theory.

[rainsey]

Don't know much about them Rainsey but these belt driven ones in QLD look pretty descent?
http://www.redwinchqld.com.au/catego...-hydraulics/9/
Personally sticking with electric down here just in case the donk is ever unfortunately swamped/dead I've still got batteries hopefully to haul to safer ground in theory.

Yeah, agree, but with the V8 I have lost my second battery under the bonnet and running the current Optima Yellow top does not give me a hell of a lot of A/hrs to play with.

Ive always likes the hydraulic winches and being that they only draw a couple of amps, you can winch all day, yes pending the engine is running.

Touch wood, I have never been in the predicament where I have not had a working engine but I have where winching became very slow and tedious so as to let the battery recover.

Also, and I do not know if the guy was feeding me a line but a TJM rep at the Sydney 4x4 show was telling me never to winch with my front e locker on as the battery draw can have detrimental effects on the locking mechanism when winching

Cheers

Rainsey




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