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Front crank seal is just above your sensor. Might pay to check your breather system as well as the seal. If it is cooler pipework, l have had success with loctite hydraulic on the fittings unless it is damaged of course.
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Excuse the hijack; what sort of access to the tensioner do you get? Is it for adjustment or just inspection?
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If this is oil GUSHING as you say, maybe the plug in the timing cover has fallen out, RARE in any discussion, and I mean RARE.
On the attached parts drawing you will see an o/ring #18 that sits between the block and the timing cover, NOT you leak, but the hole in the timing cover has a plug in it to stop the oil flowing out. This hole was used on the E Type for the oil filter adaptor, from memory???
Other oil LEAK areas are the alloy elbow on the front of the LH cylinder head, but that is pnly a lEAK, not a GUSH.
The timing chain ratchet release hole bung (as Greg mentioned) on the RH side will only be a BAD leak, not a GUSH.
An oil GUSH in my language is oil under pressure.
The cooler hoses are underneath that area, but there is a metal pipe fairly close, and a STUPID clamp attaching to the sump bolt, and if that sucker has been loose, and they do loosen up, a hole may be rubbed in that pipe, and that pipe IS under pressure.
Inside the timing cover is NOT under pressure as such, so a bung etc missing will NOT gush in any sense of that word.
Sooooo I am assuming we are on the same language here.
On the attached parts drawing you will see an o/ring #18 that sits between the block and the timing cover, NOT you leak, but the hole in the timing cover has a plug in it to stop the oil flowing out. This hole was used on the E Type for the oil filter adaptor, from memory???
Other oil LEAK areas are the alloy elbow on the front of the LH cylinder head, but that is pnly a lEAK, not a GUSH.
The timing chain ratchet release hole bung (as Greg mentioned) on the RH side will only be a BAD leak, not a GUSH.
An oil GUSH in my language is oil under pressure.
The cooler hoses are underneath that area, but there is a metal pipe fairly close, and a STUPID clamp attaching to the sump bolt, and if that sucker has been loose, and they do loosen up, a hole may be rubbed in that pipe, and that pipe IS under pressure.
Inside the timing cover is NOT under pressure as such, so a bung etc missing will NOT gush in any sense of that word.
Sooooo I am assuming we are on the same language here.
Last edited by Grant Francis; 04-22-2016 at 04:13 AM.
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Here's a before OEM bung, and after pic, where I fitted a top notch Ron Kelnhofer ally jobbie in place of the OEM rubber bung that fails in about 4 years or less.
Greg
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