SOREN
04-25-2010, 05:55 PM
Coles notes: Something major busted in my Leggy while my wife was driving, now I've got to figure out why there is oil everywhere.
My wife was driving the 1994 Legacy RS that I just imported from Japan. I've brought a couple cars over, and never had any issues - so I guess this time was just unlucky! :( It had 52,000 Km on it, and was in pretty good shape, I actually drove it for about 2000 KM home when I first got it in the end of March.
My wife was coming home after about a 3 hour drive, and started to get some whitish smoke out the back about 60Km from our house,my wife and her aunt observed the coolant temp, and had decided that nothing major was wrong, and had continued driving. Then at 20K from our house, she'd rolled the window down and smelt oil, so she pulled over. At that point the oil light came on, and she shut it off directly.
I showed up about half hour later, and observed the passenger side (left hand side if facing forward in the car) was covered in oil - all the way back to the rear wheel well. It was pretty bad. At first I'd thought for sure the engine is blown, but she mentioned that there was no loss of power, that they noticed. She did mention a tick-tick tick sound, but it was very quiet.
I've not been able to get my nerves calm enough and my head straight enough to do a proper search and come up with anything yet. I'm guessing that maybe the turbo went (whitish smoke and ticking) and then when enough oil had been lost out of the turbo, then the oil light came on.. Sound plausible?
I couldn't find any oil on the top of the engine, it all looked pretty dry, but where the battery sits was covered in oil too.
The other thing that I thought might be possible, would be something like a seal blowing out?
Any ideas? Anyone console me that it's not as bad as I'm thinking?
hmmm.
In the next days, I'll start to try and search properly, see if I can get some understanding about this. I was also considering taking the battery and all that junk out on the side to see what I can see...anywhoo..
My wife was driving the 1994 Legacy RS that I just imported from Japan. I've brought a couple cars over, and never had any issues - so I guess this time was just unlucky! :( It had 52,000 Km on it, and was in pretty good shape, I actually drove it for about 2000 KM home when I first got it in the end of March.
My wife was coming home after about a 3 hour drive, and started to get some whitish smoke out the back about 60Km from our house,my wife and her aunt observed the coolant temp, and had decided that nothing major was wrong, and had continued driving. Then at 20K from our house, she'd rolled the window down and smelt oil, so she pulled over. At that point the oil light came on, and she shut it off directly.
I showed up about half hour later, and observed the passenger side (left hand side if facing forward in the car) was covered in oil - all the way back to the rear wheel well. It was pretty bad. At first I'd thought for sure the engine is blown, but she mentioned that there was no loss of power, that they noticed. She did mention a tick-tick tick sound, but it was very quiet.
I've not been able to get my nerves calm enough and my head straight enough to do a proper search and come up with anything yet. I'm guessing that maybe the turbo went (whitish smoke and ticking) and then when enough oil had been lost out of the turbo, then the oil light came on.. Sound plausible?
I couldn't find any oil on the top of the engine, it all looked pretty dry, but where the battery sits was covered in oil too.
The other thing that I thought might be possible, would be something like a seal blowing out?
Any ideas? Anyone console me that it's not as bad as I'm thinking?
hmmm.
In the next days, I'll start to try and search properly, see if I can get some understanding about this. I was also considering taking the battery and all that junk out on the side to see what I can see...anywhoo..