I've had a busy week car-wise, oil change and major oil cleaning last weekend, and then oil dripped on my shoe from inside... I'll be looking at the oil pressure gauge as soon as I fix the snapped door safety catch and broken hood release lever. Maybe there are some leaks here and there, and that's a lot of the oil vanishing situation. OOPS... I just realized thanks to the search function that the SD has an electrical oil pressure gauge. So, it's probably not leaking from there. But the car has beenhaving some delay in shut off sometimes so maybe it's the vacuum system sucking oil? HELP!!!

So, I've cleaned up the engine some and it looks like there is a good sized drip on to the compressor under the power steering pump. I think it's coming from on of those lines that goes into the radiator. What lines are these? THey have a metal fitting and rubber hose and are under the fuel filter.


Kerry edwards,
The amount of blowby is quite a bit of smoke puffing out, and oil mist on the valve cover. It doesn't seem like too, too much, I was expecting more from the mech's description. But I have nothing to compare it to. Scratch that, my friend has an 81 300D with a rebuilt engine, I'll look at that one to compare. However, any advise would be appreciated.

The more I look at this car, the more I think that the guy I bought it from was a snake. I owe him $100 dollars, but he's certainly not getting that!