hsr
05-05-2003, 10:54 AM
I just got a new top end put in my 300ex and I put the motor back in the frame, and have had it sitting out in my garage for about 3-4 weeks now and a puddle of oil a little bit smaller than the size of a paper plate has accumulated on my garage floor. I haven't even started it up b/c i am still waiting on a few other parts...but anyways...the guy that rebuilt it for me put 2 quarts of oil in it , rather than the 1.6 that the owners manual calls for, i doubt that it is really that big of a deal, but i haven't really checked to see where it was coming from but it seems to be coming from the drain plug area. and i heard before that it will leak in this area if you don't put the washer on the drain plug bolt, but i haven't even checked for that yet either .... so i guess my question is has anyone else ever had this experience ??? Has anyone ever had oil leak out around the drain plug area? If so what was the cause. And oh yeah when i got my motor back there was a good amount of oil on the bottom just from sitting on the guys workbench and/or him changing the oil in it b4 he gave it back to me , i thought that maybe alot of it could have just dripped off the bottom but it seems like alot more than that