I am a little worried my engine is on its way out. Basicly I drove through Europe last year did 6,000 miles with no problems, rested the van up over the snowy months. Been driving it daily again and it just feels quite tight and tired (only way I can explain it) It doesn't seem to have any guts anymore. (the engine was fitting by the previous owner who said he brought it of ebay)
I have serviced it a few weeks ago, valve clearances, points, plugs and oil. New clutch (There was quite a bit of oil in the rocker covers)
There is quite alot of oil leaking it seems to be getting on the tinware and dripping down onto the belt which is then flicking the oil all over the engine and engine bay. It leaks now more than it every has, as soon as I stop somewhere jump out and there is already probably 4 - 5 drops of oils. Also when I drove the other day for around half hour when I stopped it was smoking a little at the rear, i think oil had dripped on the exhaust / heat exchangers and was burning off.
The pressure seems alright, but the van does seem to be getting hot. When I drove to the volksworld show after around 30 minutes of driving the van was at 220 F a little longer and it was up to around 230 f. Now that would seem fine but when i was driving in Italy in 30+ heat outside it would get up that hot after an hour of so. Later on in the trip when the weather cooled down after an hours driving the van would only be at around 190 - 200 F.
Please help as im not too sure what to do, I've read on vw-resource it could be a 'Blow by problem' or oil pressure switch?
I am tempted to have the engine out after Stanford hall and do a full strip down to see whats going on? any ideas?
Cheers
I have serviced it a few weeks ago, valve clearances, points, plugs and oil. New clutch (There was quite a bit of oil in the rocker covers)
There is quite alot of oil leaking it seems to be getting on the tinware and dripping down onto the belt which is then flicking the oil all over the engine and engine bay. It leaks now more than it every has, as soon as I stop somewhere jump out and there is already probably 4 - 5 drops of oils. Also when I drove the other day for around half hour when I stopped it was smoking a little at the rear, i think oil had dripped on the exhaust / heat exchangers and was burning off.
The pressure seems alright, but the van does seem to be getting hot. When I drove to the volksworld show after around 30 minutes of driving the van was at 220 F a little longer and it was up to around 230 f. Now that would seem fine but when i was driving in Italy in 30+ heat outside it would get up that hot after an hour of so. Later on in the trip when the weather cooled down after an hours driving the van would only be at around 190 - 200 F.
Please help as im not too sure what to do, I've read on vw-resource it could be a 'Blow by problem' or oil pressure switch?
I am tempted to have the engine out after Stanford hall and do a full strip down to see whats going on? any ideas?
Cheers
