wingnut2k5

I got a proplem...my 95 wagon is leaking oil from the exhaust manifold on the drivers side...any one any ideas? any help would be appriciated.

Thanx

mit

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Sounds like the rocker gasket, very common, quite cheap to get fixed. It leaks onto the headers, and burns off.

joz8968

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Yes, bound to be the rocker cover gasket - quite common on the flat 4 engine (and common in general). My driver side one needs replacing too (can't stand the smell of burning oil... fills you with fear, lol).

wingnut2k5

it actually looks like it is leaking from the joint as though it is coming from the inside of exhaust!

mit

iTrader: (10)

Strange
Is it coming from the point the headers connect to the head?

wingnut2k5

no, it is where the pipe joins to the header

joz8968

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Do you mean where the up pipe mates with the header?

Could be turbo trouble - oil to the turbo getting past the thrust bearing and into the exhaust housing and running down the up pipe? I'd try disconnecting the downpipe to see if you have oil coming out the back of the turbo as confirmation...

mit

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The oil should burn off when the engines running, do you get any smoke out the back? As joz8968, could be a turbo problem. If it's leaking over night, could cause the oil your seeing.

wingnut2k5

tiz weird...not smoking out of the back...Car is seriously getting annoying...tiz one thing after the other at the moment!!!

wingnut2k5

just wanna get it sorted coz my kids are pestering me coz we cant go out in it!!

bigarf

iTrader: (67)

might be worth looking at the oil return pipe on the turbo as mine had a leak there and the oil was dripping down and making its way onto the headers.if it is that its a real pain in the *** job but then again it could be something else.