slightly smelly X-type - oily smell when sitting still
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slightly smelly X-type - oily smell when sitting still - 2/6/2008 10:42:33 AM
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bojangles
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When ever I stop moving, and sit with the car running for a few minutes (2 min idle law here - haha) I get a waft of oily-ish smell coming through the climate control.
If I open the hood and start sniffing around I think it is coming from the passenger side (north america) rear of the engine. Hard to tell.. I get light headed after a few deep sniffs..
It has been there for ages... not a new problem. I thought it might have been the foam pieces under the intake so I took them out a year ago.... and no change.
It really smells like hot engine oil, but there is never any smoke
For a while I was thinking it was from oil spilled onthe front bank headers during oil changes(not sure how to avoid this). but I am fairly sure that is not the problem. It just does not smell at the front of the engine.
is there any typical oil leak that happens at the rear bank? I guess I need a mirror and a light to take a look, but the bottom of the engine is dry as a bone.
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RE: slightly smelly X-type - oily smell when sitting still - 2/6/2008 3:28:22 PM
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FactoryJaguarTech
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Sounds like your cam cover may be leaking.
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RE: slightly smelly X-type - oily smell when sitting still - 2/6/2008 6:29:50 PM
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bojangles
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I guess i need to pull the rear one off... it is just too hard to see what is going on back there.
On a fun note.. it is snowing here.. 9:25 pm.. about 5 inches on the ground.. and no plowing yet.. so the city is a playground.
I just did a few laps of a big parking lot nearby, There was a car parked in the corner... and after several drifts in front of it.. I noticed a young couple in there staring at me.. hahah a little excitement to add to their little make out session.. and it is just amazing how much fun it is doing drifts in an X-type.. (dsc off) equally amazing is how well the dsc works when it is on.
Cant overcome Sir Isaac Newton's basics .. but finding the limit is fun and reasonably safe.
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RE: slightly smelly X-type - oily smell when sitting still - 2/6/2008 7:03:02 PM
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Dennis
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Pictures please..I smell a faint little hot engine oil smell myself every once in a while, just after pulling into the garage...Just as you, figured it was the oil that soaked into the exhaust pipe coupling just down stream of the cat from the last oil change...
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RE: slightly smelly X-type - oily smell when sitting still - 2/6/2008 7:43:25 PM
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FactoryJaguarTech
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The oil smell after oil change should burn off within a few miles. If you are smelling it consistently, i would look at oil pan, front crankshaft seal and cam cover gaskets....in that order.
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RE: slightly smelly X-type - oily smell when sitting still - 2/6/2008 8:18:19 PM
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bojangles
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both the first two should be visible as wet on the oil pan?
I think I will jump to #3...
need to round up spark plugs while I am at it.
FJT do you have a plug number for me to find?
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