Oil puddle on top of engine

[jb92563]

Those German engine mechanics could not hold a gasket aligned and in place while bolting the covers. it kept falling off, so being brilliant as they are they used a sealant gasket instead. {Joking ... cause honestly I dont know}

That oil on top must get hot and smell bad, I would also suspect the cover seal as you do, but isn't the AOS Oil seperator plumbing near that area as well? I would suspect that as well as I have read that sometimes the connections don't seal well and it could leak.

[rem503]

The oil cooler with it's 4 'O' rings are in that left rear area of the engine. I just changed my 13 year old 'O' rings on the cooler when I replaced all the radiator hose rubber. The old 'O' rings were fairly flattened but I didn't have a leak.

2000 base manual trans.

Wow, that engine looks big outside of it's cage.

[jaykay]

Make sure it's not PS fluid. The res. sits left front on top of the engine.

[DFW02S]

Originally Posted by jaykay

Make sure it's not PS fluid. The res. sits left front on top of the engine.

jaykay wins, Pentosin CHF (ps fluid) is blue.

I mopped up a bunch of it from the same place, before adding an RSS pulley for maintaining high revs on track.
Problem solved after changing pulley and sphinning the ps pump more slowly.

[pk2]

Originally Posted by jb92563

Those German engine mechanics could not hold a gasket aligned and in place while bolting the covers. it kept falling off, so being brilliant as they are they used a sealant gasket instead. {Joking ... cause honestly I dont know}

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FYI; Many Boxsters were built in Poland. Blame it on the Poles. Not a racist, I'm of part Polish decent


Regards. PK