Hi all, hopefully someone could give me the heads up! Developed a pretty serious oil leak on my classic! I seems to be coming from the front behind the cam belt lower cover!? I took the top cam belt cover off to see if I could spot it but no real joy apart from the belts picking up some oil nothing major! I’m thinking crank or balance shaft seal?????? If so is it a pain????
Any help would be great!
Kind regards Sam

either crank or balance shaft might as well change the belts if they aint been done too

Cheers 123 I thought as much is it a common thing? Trucks done 160000 and running well (ish) belts were done 5000 ago! Is it basically pully wheel off and new seal pressed over the nose? To be honest but much for me but got an honest (ish) local garage what would you say is going to be the damage?£

Man you’ve done 32000+ posts I’m on 18 talk about different ends of the spectrum!!

ha ha i have been here a long time and talk lots of bollox! it is a shame the garage didnt change the seal when they did the belts you can bet your life it was weeping at least! but yes the belts and pulleys have to come off to get the new seals on

So it’s gonna be £££ to sort! Might just have a stab get me neighbour round who’s nearly as bad as me on the spanner’s and see what a mess we can get in!!

ha ha go for it there is a how to change your belts on here follow that

Cheers! Any idea of the water leak in the same area?? Like I said water pump changed with belts 5000 ago so should (should!!) not be that???

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ha ha i have been here a long time and talk lots of bollox!

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Cheers! Any idea of the water leak in the same area?? Like I said water pump changed with belts 5000 ago so should (should!!) not be that???

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Check all the push pipe connections that go to the thermostat housing For leaks. They can be a bugger sometimes and dribble down the front.

Thanks guys!! Got it booked into tha local garage as chickened out of the freezing cold driveway fix with a mate!! Need it for work and when my crm 250ar said no to me kicking it over for 15 mins thought it was time to splash some cash but I will certainly point out to the mech all your deductions!!!