Oil leak

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Finlandia

Original Poster:

7,803 posts

230 months

Monday 18th May 2015
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Can a turbo pressure pipe cause an oil leak on the right hand side of the car?

I have a pretty bad engine oil leak, approximately five inches in from the right tyre and just in front of the axle, judging by the oil marks on the floor.
All seals are newly done, PCV done, I'm told it's the overhead S shaped pressure pipe that is leaking, but can this really be the cause for oil dripping on the right hand side of the engine?

The car is a 1998 C70 T5.

morgrp

4,128 posts

197 months

Tuesday 19th May 2015
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has the cam seal gone? When you say pressure pipe, do you mean the oil feed or the intercooler pipe? Oring fails on the turbo oil feed which is a "common as muck" problem - not difficult to put right.

morgrp

4,128 posts

197 months

Tuesday 19th May 2015
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if it is the intercooler pipe you mean, i.e. the large diameter metal pipe that sits over the cam cover then that shouldn't be full of oil anyway - you always get some oil in them but never enough to leak out

Finlandia

Original Poster:

7,803 posts

230 months

Tuesday 19th May 2015
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Thanks, I thought the same.

All seals are recently changed, so shouldn't be that. The car is at a specialist, well any mechanic in Sweden should really be a Volvo guru, and they told me it's the pressure pipe on top of the engine, so presumably the intercooler pipe, which I find hard to believe is the reason for an oil leak on the other side of the engine.

I'm away and the car is in the workshop, so I can't check it myself either.