What is this hose??? and few other things
New owner 03 Boxster 5spd 72900 miles. there is no service history. I did my oil change this past saturday used Mob. 1 0w-40 took 9 qts of oil.
while had the car up on lift I checked out the engine and saw following things: 1: small oil dropping bottom of the engine where it mount to trans. Does the oil leak look like leaking from rear main seal? 2: both left & right inner axle shaft inner boot to trans. clamp is on the boot right side worse than left. I didn't see any tear on the inner boot. there is some grease that spattered on the right side front of the boot to engine. I can turn the inner boot easily with my hand again the clamp is on the boot there's some grease as you can see from the photo coming out. I shouldn't be able to turn the boot with my hand right? is inner boot clamp even though is on the boot worn and should I replace the clamp? 3: i'm guessing the top hose is coolant hose. The hose below the coolant hose looks like was leaking at some point and the leak as you can see hardended. What hose is the hose below coolant hose what can this hardened stuff be? Thanks in advance for any input you guys can give me.http://986forum.com/forums/uploads02...1506958146.jpg http://986forum.com/forums/uploads02...1506958683.jpg http://986forum.com/forums/uploads02...1506958698.jpg http://986forum.com/forums/uploads02...1506958709.jpg http://986forum.com/forums/uploads02...1506958720.jpg http://986forum.com/forums/uploads02...1506958732.jpg http://986forum.com/forums/uploads02...1506958743.jpg |
You have a coolant leak, likely a bad water pump. They are known to fail on these. That is your biggest problem, the oil and axles are fairly common as well and won't cause problems in the near future, that water pump however will leave you high and dry so I recommend getting a new water pump and T-Stat.
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I cleaned off the excess oil leak you say oil leak and axle boot grease leak is common. I will have to keep an eye on both. I may replace the clamp with one of those aftermarket one you tighten by screw driver. Do you think oil leak is coming from rear main seal??? Thats the only place I can think of or could it be from oil filler tube? I have photo of the oil filler tube looks very wet and leaking. Fourth photo is photo of the oil filler tube as you can see tube is pretty wet. Thanks for the reply |
The oil leak is either the rear main seal or the intermediate shaft bearing, both of which can be serious and required taking out the transmission to diagnose the problem. And if you get to that point, then you probably just want to replace the rear main seal, the intermediate shaft bearing and the clutch at that time.
I second the diagnosis of a bad water pump and the leaking CV joint boots are easily fixed by replacing the original clamps with worm style radiator hose clamps. |
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Maybe time to try to sell the car..... But I do love the car but I'm not mechanically inclined and it cost too much to fix car problems as it arises at a shop. |
Did you examine the oil filter for debris. If there is no metal then the IMSB is probably ok. But I would still drop the tranny
If you have a lift it's really pretty easy to drop the tranny. |
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