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[P6UL K]

 Hi guys, having an oil issue on the diesel. It's coming from below the dipstick area and hitting the installation under the bonnet and literally coating everything from the battery to the pulleys in black oil.  Initially I thought it might be coming from the dipstick as it may have not been pushed in correctly, but I have just done an oil and filter change and made sure the dipstick was seated correctly and I've got to work and the engine bay is covered again!!

 Any ideas on where it could be coming from?

[Andy B]

my engine bay is covered in oil too because some dosey pillock left the oil filler cap off when he topped it up the other week 

[P6UL K]

Wrong side for me, that's side is bone dry!

[BazaJT]

Couldn't be something like the crank seal and the oil being "thrown" by the belt pulleys could it?

[P6UL K]

Nah, pretty sure it's not... Pulleys are splattered with oil rather than soaked... Defo coming up from diesel pump, dipstick tube areas

[raywilb]

I had a similar situation on the td that I use to have & in my case if I remember right it was the turbo pipe that ran across the front over the rads. it had a slight gap at the seam so blew oil from turbo all over. at the time I,d have never guessed that's where it was coming from. silicone cured that.

[Nick W]

my engine bay is covered in oil too because some dozy pillock left the oil filler cap off when he topped it up the other week 

We've all done that. My mother quite rightly moaned like hell about it.


I once whittled a 'temporary' filler cap at the side of the road out of an old fence post using my Leatherman. Add some duct tape and a big tick in the temporary repair box and he was out of our area

[Lazydocker]

my engine bay is covered in oil too because some dozy pillock left the oil filler cap off when he topped it up the other week 

We've all done that. My mother quite rightly moaned like hell about it.


I once whittled a 'temporary' filler cap at the side of the road out of an old fence post using my Leatherman. Add some duct tape and a big tick in the temporary repair box and he was out of our area

It's funny how creative you can be when faced with a long recovery or crappy destination

[Kevin Wood]

my engine bay is covered in oil too because some dozy pillock left the oil filler cap off when he topped it up the other week 

We've all done that. My mother quite rightly moaned like hell about it.


I once whittled a 'temporary' filler cap at the side of the road out of an old fence post using my Leatherman. Add some duct tape and a big tick in the temporary repair box and he was out of our area

It's funny how creative you can be when faced with a long recovery or crappy destination

Could have done with you guys when my water pump pulley made a bid for freedom on Saturday. Obviously the 4.5 mile recovery with the promise of tea and biscuits and use of a loo afterwards was the wrong approach.

No sure how you could have stopped the coolant ssiping out of it, mind.

[Nick W]

my engine bay is covered in oil too because some dozy pillock left the oil filler cap off when he topped it up the other week 

We've all done that. My mother quite rightly moaned like hell about it.


I once whittled a 'temporary' filler cap at the side of the road out of an old fence post using my Leatherman. Add some duct tape and a big tick in the temporary repair box and he was out of our area

It's funny how creative you can be when faced with a long recovery or crappy destination

Both: Manchester.