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Oil stain/puddle on rocker cover, why?

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Old 11-05-2024, 07:09 PM
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Default Oil stain/puddle on rocker cover, why?

So everytime I drive the car on the road for some time, I get a small puddle of oil on the spot marked with the green arrow (Not my car, just for illustration). Anybdoy else has the same? Any ideas what is going on? My car has an oil breather and engine oil is topped up/full. I suspec it might be leaking from the oil cap, is that possible?


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Anything is possible. Is your oil cap a good fit or does it pull off easily?
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It's a good fit yes, you get some resistance when you pull and once past it you can slide it out normally. It seems to have enough crank pressure to spit quite a bit against the cap and wet it, can see it clearly on the cap's underside. That makes me wonder if it ends up leaking from there, but the cap is twisted outwards, so the logical thing would be for it to leak the oppsoite way.

I can't think of anything else that carries oil nearby, the t u r b o aluminium duct just carries pressurized air and I can't see any oil dirt in the junctions. And my turbo isn't leaking oil AFAIK, exhaust gas is always perfectly clear even from cold start.
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