magnamx-5

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Ok anyone who went to the miata meet at steves knows i have an oil leak, the leak was anywhere from .6-1 quart per 100 miles, it only leaked at high speed/pressure, and got slung around everywhere under the hood from the crank pulley.
I thought it was the crank seal but upon disasembly all the usual **** that is slick and oily when that fails was dry and in great shape. Then i noticed a new hole in my BE oil pump i geuss they used a different housing etc.
anyway here is my 1.6 stock oil pump

and here is my new BE oilpump after i jb welded the extra bolt hole


I measured the depth of the hole and it goes damn near all the way through so I thought it was worth a shot. Once the jbweld has cured i will post an update. Thoughts etc. anyone else seen this problem?

Braineack

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this has been discussed... that's your leak for sure.

magnamx-5

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ahh i thought so but most of what i saw was the **** for the AC compressor bracket wich i have installed with all bolts etc. I looked for nubbins thread but i didnt find it thx scot.

Braineack

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im the king of search.

magnamx-5

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so should i take out the jb weld or do you think i will be ok?

magnamx-5

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well wtf did no one have any insight? Like i said before this is in the same area but it is a bolt hole that my stock **** did not have and all the bolts that i ran on my stock **** are installed. So lumping me into the mess of people who just didnt put there **** back together with all the bolts they needed to get the job done is BS. Seriuslly why do i even ask questions if you guys wont take what the **** i post serius?

Bryce

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It appears that I'm almost 12 hours too late, but I would've gone and found a bolt of the appropriate length and put that in there. Non-AC equipped Miatas have a shorter bolt in that place.

You're effectively shorting yourself some clamping load (or at least uniformity) on the oil pump to engine block seal.

magnamx-5

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AC equiped all the time and bolts properly installed and torqued. Little **** like this drives me crazy.

Bryce

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Ah, different hole than what I thought. Mine has a press-fit plug in that hole. JB-weld should be fine then. I was working on sealing up my oil pan and pump today on the bench but found out I didn't have the oil pump o-ring or the pickup tube gasket. FML.

magnamx-5

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bryce ty so much that was all i wanted was for someone to actualy look at the problem. I am just as savvy as the next .net user but an extra set of eyes actualy looking at the situation helps a ton, it's not like i have 10 turbo miatas within a 50 mile radius that i eat lunch with every day.

Joe Perez

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Has that little crack always been there on the end of the crankshaft?

MartinezA92

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Yup, I was losing about a quart every 1k miles through that same hole. Stuck the appropriate bolt in there and I'm leak free.

magnamx-5

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there is a crack where? i didnt even notice one tell me where, and i will go back out to make sure it isnt a trick of the light. Or left over loctite etc

Joe Perez

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Just pulling your chain.

Bryce

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Joe made a funny! Hahahaha

magnamx-5

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Ok so after predigous amounts of jbweld, locktite, and, time etc the car still leaks oil i verified that it is comming out from beneath the crank pulley so at this point im probly gonna be pulling the motor and redoing the pan. you gotta love this ****.

18psi

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ouch man. good luck. just have someone weld that ho up once and for all

Bryce

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I know that sucks! I ended up buying a 2.0 to fix my leak. You might as well reseal the oil pump while you have the pan off.

hustler

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Lord of the Gays.