hi just bought 93 impreza and have noticed a small oil leak, looks like its coming from under where the timing belt is any ideas anyone? cheers

 

i ad the same

it was my front crank oil seal

lol

just ad it fixed wiv new cam belt

£280

 

Cheers mate just made my day

could this turn nasty if its not seen to straight away?

 

not really,you will just keep losing oil,actually yes it will if it gets on the cambelt,may well be cam seals????

 

mine was left a few months tbh

smoked like a bitch wen hot and stank too

so had it done

 

My friend has a similar prob. What was the problem?

 

happened to me to boys on my old scoob. it was a sport and was leaking oil somewhere near the cambelt. having a belly plate didnt help but a decent mechanic took off the belt cover at the top had a feel and found it quite easily.

apparently its a common thing with subarus, just a pain to get to it to find out for sure and costly if you change the cambelt too. i needed a new crank seal and a new pulley too as the old one was all rusted and snapped when being taken off!!!

just be careful where you get your parts. a new pulley cost me £110 for a supposed genuine part whereas on camskill (which are very reputable!!) there round £30...

all in a new seal new cambelt and a new pulley cost me £300 inc labour and untill i crasher her she ran fine. but saying that if i had got a £30 pulley instead i would have paid £250ish instead!!!!

 

Sorted this problem on my old rb5, cost about £7 for a crank oil seal and £40 for a new cam belt from GGR. Did it myself tho so no labour charge.
If its a bad leak be careful, I filled up with juice once & when I came back to the car after paying it was smoking like f**k in middle of shell garage, the oil was dripping onto exhaust manifold. Had a few worried spectators! !!!

 

I had the same problem, at a Shell garage too just a couple of weeks ago.

The guy behind the counter got on the tannoy and said "it aint gonna catch fire is it?" lol, got me all embarrassed