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esky365 · Joined: 15 Mar 2007 Posts: 52 Location: uk

Hi
Last week the car was oil tight, this week I got an oil leak. Can anyone advise me the first place to look. It isnt a lot of oil and the pressure has maintained.
Also looks ashamed while I am waiting for my workshop manual to arrive, can anyone tell me where the oil filter is? I cannot spot the flipping thing! Wouldnt be so bad but I owned one of these ten years ago!!!
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1979 2 litre
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D Hook · Joined: 02 Nov 2002 Posts: 3158 Location: Omaha, NE

Oil filter is located near the exhaust manifold, below, near the starter. Since you have the steering wheel on the wrong side of the car, it would be the driver's side on yours.

Where's the oil leak from, can you tell? Valve cover? Oil pan? Front/rear seal? Have you switched from dino oil to synthetic lately?
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scottc · Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2007 1:31 am Post subject:

As above. But as you're steering wheel is on the right side (pun intended)....

Where 'bouts are you Esky?

Oil leak, I'd make sure the crankcase breather's not blocked. Otherwise the pressure builds until something gives.

Which car to buy? · Joined: 24 Mar 2003 Posts: 163

Mike924 · Joined: 12 Aug 2004 Posts: 2601 Location: IoW UK

It's towards the rear of the engine, on the left-hand-side (sitting in the car), but it's quite difficult to spot as it's under the intake manifold.

It should have a thick rubber hose coming from going to either the air box or the plastic (as opposed to rubber) intake pipe, depending on the age of your car. It looks like a metal dome-shaped object, about 3 1/2 inches or so across.
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