Diff Leaking?

[Mitchp]

Just nosing around underneath the Tuscan and noticed a sticky patch of oil on the underside of the boot floor. I can't get underneath the car to have a proper look, but it looks like it's dripping off the diff carrier onto the offside exhaust and running back to the rear box and getting blown onto the boot floor.

I'm assuming it's the front pinion seal. I don't know how much oil has been lost (I've done about 300mls so far and 220 of that was on the run back from Ipswich). The car is quite low mileage, and I doubt it's been on such a long run before. I'm going to call Kerridges tomorrow, but wondered if anybody has had a similar problem?

[nawarne]

Had same problem.

Noted on a few services before I started using STR8Six. I would check diff oil regularly and would often struggle to get ~100ml in to top-up. So don't fret too much.

Had the seal done last year - about £90, and it's been oil-tight since.
Nick

[johnalford2]

have same issue not overly woried about itn after this

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...