Hello all,
First post on this forum so be gentle...!
Missus has a R56 Cooper (one of the first R56s I believe) in Lightning Blue. I had it on a ramp the other day and noticed a very moist gearbox casing.
Files now attached!
Now it looks like the gearbox seal is weeping oil. I filled it up the other week so will check again this weekend to see how much it's consumed, but I reckon it's in the order of around a litre every 1200 miles (maybe a bit more) which I would say is a lot. My motorcycle and Focus RS use much, much less than this. So this has got me thinking that it is an engine oil leak despite the visual evidence to the contrary. Also the oil it looks to me like used engine oil, golden but quite dark and dirty. I would also expect the transmission oil to be red as many OEMs seem to put ATF in their manual boxes.
I've always found the engine quite noisy, very rattley and whistley almost, hard to explain, but other than this along with the gearbox it runs fine.
So I guess my questions are; is it the 'box seal weeping or an engine oil leak? Anything that could be a common issue? Is that amount of oil consumption for this engine (1.6L NA, so not the MCS) normal? Are these engines usually so bloody noisy?!
Thanks!
First post on this forum so be gentle...!
Missus has a R56 Cooper (one of the first R56s I believe) in Lightning Blue. I had it on a ramp the other day and noticed a very moist gearbox casing.
Files now attached!
Now it looks like the gearbox seal is weeping oil. I filled it up the other week so will check again this weekend to see how much it's consumed, but I reckon it's in the order of around a litre every 1200 miles (maybe a bit more) which I would say is a lot. My motorcycle and Focus RS use much, much less than this. So this has got me thinking that it is an engine oil leak despite the visual evidence to the contrary. Also the oil it looks to me like used engine oil, golden but quite dark and dirty. I would also expect the transmission oil to be red as many OEMs seem to put ATF in their manual boxes.
I've always found the engine quite noisy, very rattley and whistley almost, hard to explain, but other than this along with the gearbox it runs fine.
So I guess my questions are; is it the 'box seal weeping or an engine oil leak? Anything that could be a common issue? Is that amount of oil consumption for this engine (1.6L NA, so not the MCS) normal? Are these engines usually so bloody noisy?!
Thanks!