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pocketscience · Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 11:07 pm Post subject: I hate puddles

Hmmm...

Just pushed the car into the garage - was late and didn't want to wake the neighbours for the sake of a 5 metre drive. When I walked back there was a puddle - thin, light, oily fluid - I'm guessing 50ml or so on the drive.

Then I spotted another mark - where the rear wheel had obviously traveled through the puddle, and transported some of the fluid up the drive, and then another just outside the garage door.

So what could have left a puddle in front of the right rear wheel?? I guess it could only be brake fluid, or fluid form the rear shock (no idea what's there honestly - never looked at them since I've owned the car!)

I'll check it tomorrow, too shagged tonight to do more than type this...

Thoughts?

Cheers,
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Scorpio · Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 11:27 pm Post subject:

fuel tank...fuel line?...smells like oil so perhaps not fuel...

shock fluid....brake fluid....press your brakes and see it it squirts there somewhere
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emoore924 · Joined: 13 Apr 2004 Posts: 2822

Brake fluid. Leaking m/c or vacuum assist, or might be a caliper/line at one of the wheels (less likely but possible). To confirm, check fluid level in m/c resavoir.

You need to find out where it is coming from...

Rich H · Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 1:11 am Post subject:

Dog piss?
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Smoothie · Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 3:39 am Post subject:

I once watched a cat mark my car as its' own. It did so by pee-ing on the sidewall of a rear tire. -But I refused to sign over the title. He couldn't have gotten it registered anyway - no hands and too many feet..

If it could have dripped behind the wheel, then might have been a container of something leaking through the bottom of that deep-side-rear storage area.
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pocketscience · Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 7:04 am Post subject:

emoore924 · Joined: 13 Apr 2004 Posts: 2822

Heh heh, I'm still sticking with my original guess -- brake fluid from someplace...

pocketscience · Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 3:31 pm Post subject:

Brake fluid coming out of drum - line in and bleed valve look fine - something obviously ain't right inside the drum.

Calling Private 5-Lug - you've just been promoted son!!

So much for finishing the tune on the MS!

G.
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wasapyt · Joined: 17 May 2009 Posts: 26 Location: Lemoore California

well couldnt it be the slave cylinder seals their rebuild kit is like ten bucks at parts store but they do dry out crack then leak i havent changed mine on the porsche but soon to come when i get it running i replaced them on my other car a small 89 mazda 323 just a thought
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Rich H · Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 9:30 pm Post subject:

5 lug is easy - stop mincing about and get on with it....

Make the car stop a bit better too but the handbrake is a proper bitch to get right....
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pocketscience · Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 11:07 am Post subject:

That's exactly what I'm doing (the 5-lug, not the mincing!) - well except I'm 11,000km away from the car currently...
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