Oil everywhere........!!!!!!!!pug 106

Hi guys id appreciate it if anyone could help......


I changed my air filter from the standard air box to a pipercoss
filter about a year ago now.......noproblems wat so ever......


wanting to up grade i bought a BMC CDA air box......only differnce
being slightly bigger with an attached air intake.....


fitting the new filter.... i was unable to connect the (oil breather
pipe) to the smaller filter supplied....... being told that leaving
this off for a few days before i got a new conecter would be fine i
drove my car......



after about 4 miles oil was leaking all over the place......
although no oil around the breather pipe....... ttthe oil seems to
be coming from the right hand side of the engine.......could this be a
coninsidence that its started to leak or because i never atteched the
breather pipe!? ....... putting the old air filter back on i stil get
oil.....anyone heard of this pronblem.....


be grateful if someone could shed some light....
cheers
Dan

 

I have no idea how the oil pressure is measured on a 106 but "in the old
days" on every car there was a pressure switch screwed into the engine block
and, when that started to leak, this was the exact effect.

Keith

 

Leaving the breather off wont cause a leak like that, although you
might get some oil spraying out the end depending on where the breather
is attached. It's just letting the pressure/oil vapour out into the
atmosphere (or the underside of your bonnet...) rather than burning it
in the engine.

As Keith mentioned it could be the oil sensor or something has come
loose or a seal has perished coincidentally.
I'd clean up the engine then run it for a few minutes with the covers
off and see if you can spot where it's coming from. My 206 is always
leaking from around the cam cover seal, might be worth checking if you
dont know where to start (cos it's cheap and easy ).

Andy