Project 914 Get's Going

After a few months delay project 914 gets going again. Still have that pesky peeing oil leak (read about it here and see VIDEO of it in action here) that could be either a crankcase seal (best case-remove transmission) or crankcase plugs (worst case-drop motor). From what I've read this will take a couple of hours so I figure half-a-day job. Still reading up and researching before taking this on...

This guy in Australia goes step-by-step on replacing the main seal on a Type IV VW engine. Since this 914 2.0 has a Type IV engine and other than the drop out the engine procedure the replacement of the seal should be the same click here for the link...

In the mean time removed the oil strainer sump/gasket. Here's before picture and will post the clean picture in a little while. The before picture had a couple of pieces of Permatex we used to seal the oil plug or maybe a gasket that caused the oil leak???

914 Oil Drip

The oil drip continues...

Before we started the car we checked the oil and it was about 1 quart low. Added about 1/2 quart and started the car. Let it idle for about 15 minutes and it was not 'peeing' oil any longer. We are seeing a steady drip of oil here...

Original oil leak video here...
http://2121interbay.blogspot.com/2007/09/porsche-914-oil-leak.html

Thanks to the 914club.com for all of the assistance in troubleshooting this leak!

Oil Cooler

Giddy Up!













Fresh oil around the oil cooler. Felt around the oil filter and didn't feel any oil leaking from it.

Day 2 of 914 Project: Car Idles & 'Cleaned' Undercarriage

More pictures will be posted later.



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Used engine cleaner to remove some of the oil from the underside of the car. Now I can move around the car with out getting 'as' filthy.

Cleaned the air filter out which had a tremendous layer of oily build up. Car wouldn't idle yesterday but did after I re-assembled the air cleaner. Found a Wick air cleaner at All Parts Auto on Meridian and Branham.

Installed new negative longer battery cable, positive and negative terminals. Used some baking soda to clean out the battery support area.

Torqued the oil strainer plug to just under 10ft/lbs. Car still leaking oil but at least it doesn't appear to be the oil plugs or the oil filter. Maybe it's the oil cooler seals??? Will find a diagram and hopefully some pictures of the locations to see if that might be the area of the leak.

Before & After Battery

While I was out for test drive I made some new friends

Porsche 914 Oil Leak

Starts peeing oil at 4 seconds.