April 17th, 2007 by admin

Slight corrosion fixed and under seal applied, the car has previously been under seal but a few spots were missed. I Asked a mechanic to take a look at the oil leak, he told me it was the sump which shocked me as I’ve had many xr2’s and none have ever had a leaky sump, leaky elsewhere lol but never sump. I asked him to do the job as I’ve only ever done it once before on an escort mk4 that had a bunged up pressure problem and it was a total nightmare as the seal would slip as your trying to put the bolts in. The job got done and the car came back, I decided to test it using a light colored blanket and parking the car over it, sure enough it spewed out oil worse than before! I took it back to the mechanic and told him to take another look, he told me that it was the oil pressure sensor and he had replace it with a new one. The car still spewed oil so I took another look and saw that the sensor had been replaced but still leaked oil, so I tightened it until it stopped but this wasn’t the end of it as another blanket test revealed that the sump was leaking from both sides! That’s some shoddy workmanship!!