Front Cover Oil Leak

[gkors]

Not sure how many others have noticed but my BF T gets a leak from the front cover, goes down behind the water pump and on other side. Its not a massive leak just enough to make a stain.

Now the funny part is Byrne Fraud I've been reporting it to go ok we'll have a look, they degrease it and give it back and say oh we couldn't find a oil leak. Few months its back.

Turns out the Top cover bolts are too long the star shaped ones.

They are hitting on the back of the seat so not allowing the cover to tighten.

thankfully a Ford tech told me that. Ground a tiny bit off them screwed back up and you can feel they are now tight not hitting something.

[SuckSqueezeBangBlow]

good tip, I'll grind some of mine, cheers.

how much did you take off? 2mm, 5mm?

Edited 28/08/11 10:09 PM by JC807

[gkors]

Only a couple of mm, 2-3 then run a thread restorer on the end.

If you pull them out you can actually see where they are hitting into the alloy, mine had shavings on the end.