The Joy Of Bodge

Well done. I'll have to see if that works on the wife's car. The trouble with hers is that the oil seems to be fairly well spread over the underside of the engine. Whether is only drips off one point I haven't actually investigated.

Are you sure you're not a Sheddi in disguise?

All well and good until you hit a speed hump I should imagine. ;-)

"Vim Fuego" wrote in news:%nO0h.40322$ snipped-for-privacy@newsfe7-gui.ntli.net:

Next stage will be a scavenger pump with a tube into the ladle? :-)

And you have the added benefit that lots of nasty motorcyclists will fall from their machines on your oil slicks, thus helping to reduce the congestion they cause :-)

Chris

A friend of mine used to put a tub under his car and pour the contents back into his engine. He also had at one stage a Marina 1800 which used to leak oil onto the exhaust manifold where it would catch fire. A nifty diversion of a screen wash pipe aimed directly at the manifold cured that.

The stub that's left from the handle is only about an inch long. Anything that took the ladle out would also rip the sump off!

A free - or cheap - method which may work is to check the crankcase breathers are clear. If I'd a pound for every case of excess pressure forcing oil past a seal...

I did think that I could be just about arsed to check it wasn't something simple like the rocker cover gasket, and I have also know oil seep out of the breather pipe and the vacuum pump on this engine (TUD5), both readily fixable.