Oil on the Timing belt

hands-on · Post by **hands-on** » Sun Apr 02, 2006 11:28 pm

Finally after almost 4 months of weekend work I got the cylinder head back o the car, a 2000 lanos 1.6.
once the timing belt was on I wanted to see if it worked so I started the car without the timing cover.
The car runs great but there seams to be an oil leak on to the timing belt is this normal or do I have a problem with the valve cover seal or the camshaft bearing?

kan · Post by **kan** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 8:32 am

Definitely its abnormal situation. This oil cause belt going to break.

hands-on · Post by **hands-on** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 5:19 pm

can the oil be due to overfilling of oil,
I put a full 4 quarts of oil into the oil filler 3 hrs before I started it.
I dont see any leaks at the head gasket
the only 2 places seem to be the valve cover gasket or the oil pump but ther is no reason for the oil pump to leak.
Do I need to change the belt once I clean everything up?

JohnnyC · Post by **JohnnyC** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 6:22 pm

hands-on wrote:can the oil be due to overfilling of oil,
I put a full 4 quarts of oil into the oil filler 3 hrs before I started it.
I dont see any leaks at the head gasket
the only 2 places seem to be the valve cover gasket or the oil pump but ther is no reason for the oil pump to leak.
Do I need to change the belt once I clean everything up?

I would change the belt when you're done cleaning it up... Also... the 1.6 doesn't take 4 quarts of oil... that's too much.

MMamdouh · Post by **MMamdouh** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 6:31 pm

1.6 takes about 3.75 liters of oil.

only sourced of oil at the timing belt are: cam cover, oil pump and power steering pump.

it is advisable to replace the belt as oil eats up rubber.

MMamdouh

hands-on · Post by **hands-on** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 10:20 pm

4 quarts is 3.8l but the car was raised up on the jack stand after I took the wheel off, could that cause the oil to collect in the valve cover?
The oil level is where it is supposed to be on the dipstick

hands-on · Post by **hands-on** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 3:54 am

now I know what happened, I did not install the camshaft oil seals.
thats what get when you dont check that everything is in its place when you get a remanufactured head