Engine Oil Leak

[Guest gazza1591]

Anyone running a c20xe engine on here? I had fired mine up last week only to. Find I had a major oil leak which I thought was coming out the sump, so. Replaced the gaskets yesterday with a little sealant aswell left over night to dry. filled it up today and fired it up, straight away oil pissing out everywhere on floor, on a closer look today it seems to be coming out of this area in the red circle am I meant to have a pipe or something on here? Any help. Would be great as lost 8+ litres of oil now

[steve in stockport]

Can't see very well from the picture but the oil pressure sender is usually in that area. If there's no sender then fitting one should do the trick, if there is a sender there are some other threaded holes in that location that have bungs in which may have been removed.

[kevin the chicken]

I can't see on mine now that it is back together but I had a spare hole which leaked some expensive oil all over the floor. I ended up fitting a mechanical oil pressure gauge to one outlet and blocked the other one with a spare sender which had the correct thread. There are several holes as Steve said which gives you choice on where you can put your sender. If you fit a mechanical gauge there is an adaptor available on ebay which allows you to fit it so that you get a straight pipe run back towards the dash without sharp bends.