jason.p
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While I'm waiting for a replacement blower motor I decided to look at my next problem.
The sump appears to have been fitted by a bunch of cowboys:roll:
They have obviously used a lot of some kind of mastic which has squeezed out all round, and there seems to be a variety of different bolt types, some proper Renault star, and some plain hex. Needless to say, oil had been oozing out all round. I've managed to tighten most of them and stopped some of the leaks, but one seems to have a stripped thread. The bolt seems ok, so I guess it's the block. There's quite a bit of oil coming out around this bolt, and it's getting worse
. Is there any quick fix I can use like some kind of thread seal until I can get round to putting a new gasket in, and even then is there any way to cure the stripped thread?
It's a '95 td and the sump is the one piece aluminium type.
At the moment it seems like one thing after another, but I'll get there in the end
The sump appears to have been fitted by a bunch of cowboys:roll:
They have obviously used a lot of some kind of mastic which has squeezed out all round, and there seems to be a variety of different bolt types, some proper Renault star, and some plain hex. Needless to say, oil had been oozing out all round. I've managed to tighten most of them and stopped some of the leaks, but one seems to have a stripped thread. The bolt seems ok, so I guess it's the block. There's quite a bit of oil coming out around this bolt, and it's getting worse

It's a '95 td and the sump is the one piece aluminium type.
At the moment it seems like one thing after another, but I'll get there in the end
