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Petrol in my Oil
Petrol in my Oil
I check my dipstick this morning and noticed the oil was down to about half but it smelt like petrol and wasnt gettin as dark as it would normally.
Anyone hav any ideas im pretty sure there is petrol in the oil but wat is causing it??
it is a vitara jlx with a g16A
Thanks guys
Anyone hav any ideas im pretty sure there is petrol in the oil but wat is causing it??
it is a vitara jlx with a g16A
Thanks guys
X2 fix it immediately it will destroy your engine. Do not drive the car.
Changing the pump over is a pretty straightforward job. Should only take 1/2 hour or so.
Steve.
Changing the pump over is a pretty straightforward job. Should only take 1/2 hour or so.
Steve.
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A pump, an oil filter, and oil is all it'll cost
Pump will probably be afound $40,-
Its worth fixing now rather than having a dead engine, i can tell you now which will cost more to repair....
Most new pumps have a little overflow tube that will leak if the diaphram breaks, rather that it flowing into the sump. Much better idea!
MF
Pump will probably be afound $40,-
Its worth fixing now rather than having a dead engine, i can tell you now which will cost more to repair....
Most new pumps have a little overflow tube that will leak if the diaphram breaks, rather that it flowing into the sump. Much better idea!
MF
I'm not aware of a "performance" pump.
All pumps (factory included) have the overflow but these can become plugged.
Steve.
All pumps (factory included) have the overflow but these can become plugged.
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Very possibly, if it has been leaking fuel into your motor instead of burning it. But if you have been loosing that much fuel (as a 42l tank in a zook that only gets 200km means more than 20l/100km) you would have had an overflowing sump, and would of most likley done some hideous damage to your bearings/rest of motor. That sort of fuel consuption for a standard (or near standard) sierra is pretty bad.gorgie2006 wrote:anything else that should be done at the same time as the pump change other then new oil and filter??
do u guys think this will improve my fuel economy as im only getting 200km out of a tank and thats after the carby being rebuilt 12months ago.
thanks heaps for ur help
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Suzuki fuel guages are well known for being unreliable. Mine only ever reaches 3/4 and i can drive for over 100km after it has hit empty. The only way you're going to work out an accurate fuel usage is to:
- Fill the tank up full
- Take a 10L jerrycan along with you
- Drive till the car runs out of fuel and record km's
- Use jerrycan fuel to get to nearest servo
- Fill the car back up to full
Then figure out how many km you got out of xx Litres it took you to fill ya car back up with (-10L that you added from the jerrycan)
Then learn to drive off the odometer reading since you now know approximately how many km you can get before your run out of fuel.
Well thats how i do it, i've been stranded too many times for trusting the guage
- Fill the tank up full
- Take a 10L jerrycan along with you
- Drive till the car runs out of fuel and record km's
- Use jerrycan fuel to get to nearest servo
- Fill the car back up to full
Then figure out how many km you got out of xx Litres it took you to fill ya car back up with (-10L that you added from the jerrycan)
Then learn to drive off the odometer reading since you now know approximately how many km you can get before your run out of fuel.
Well thats how i do it, i've been stranded too many times for trusting the guage

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Bit of a thread hijack but my fuel pump flogged out up at toolangi on a sunday recently and had to replace it with an electric pump as nowhere was open that sold the 1.3 mechanical pump. Wired it up to the coil and ran it through the stuffed pump so that we could still get a fuel return working back to the tank.
Question is if my pump being stuffed, will i be getting fuel flowing into my oil if the electric pump is still plumbed up through it? The pump was completely stuffed ie pumping but 0 pressure.
Question is if my pump being stuffed, will i be getting fuel flowing into my oil if the electric pump is still plumbed up through it? The pump was completely stuffed ie pumping but 0 pressure.
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Most probably.
The pumps are simple, they are a pair of pressure valves (like a heart), with a diaphram below, controlled by a rocker, driven by a push rod, off a cam lobe.
Pretty much only two things can go wrong..... a valve sticks, or the diaphram breaks..... if its the latter, you will probably get a bit of fuel down into the oil.
MF
The pumps are simple, they are a pair of pressure valves (like a heart), with a diaphram below, controlled by a rocker, driven by a push rod, off a cam lobe.
Pretty much only two things can go wrong..... a valve sticks, or the diaphram breaks..... if its the latter, you will probably get a bit of fuel down into the oil.
MF
not if u use a carby electric one. like a lift pump.ScrawnC wrote:The other thing you need to be careful of is the pressure. The mechanical one supplies something like 3psi? The electric one may supply more? It will cause flooding and may help rupture the buggered pump more.
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lay80n wrote:Very possibly, if it has been leaking fuel into your motor instead of burning it. But if you have been loosing that much fuel (as a 42l tank in a zook that only gets 200km means more than 20l/100km) you would have had an overflowing sump, and would of most likely done some hideous damage to your bearings/rest of motor. That sort of fuel consumption for a standard (or near standard) sierra is pretty bad.gorgie2006 wrote:anything else that should be done at the same time as the pump change other then new oil and filter??
do u guys think this will improve my fuel economy as im only getting 200km out of a tank and thats after the carby being rebuilt 12months ago.
thanks heaps for ur help
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layto you right but for one thing..
it is a vitara not a sierra with a vit engine as written in the first post....
so i think vitara tanks were around 54 lt....... depending on swb or lwb....
still 200ks to a tank goes into the holy crap category...
cheers mark
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mud4b wrote:lay80n wrote:Very possibly, if it has been leaking fuel into your motor instead of burning it. But if you have been loosing that much fuel (as a 42l tank in a zook that only gets 200km means more than 20l/100km) you would have had an overflowing sump, and would of most likely done some hideous damage to your bearings/rest of motor. That sort of fuel consumption for a standard (or near standard) sierra is pretty bad.gorgie2006 wrote:anything else that should be done at the same time as the pump change other then new oil and filter??
do u guys think this will improve my fuel economy as im only getting 200km out of a tank and thats after the carby being rebuilt 12months ago.
thanks heaps for ur help
Layto....
layto you right but for one thing..
it is a vitara not a sierra with a vit engine as written in the first post....
so i think vitara tanks were around 54 lt....... depending on swb or lwb....
still 200ks to a tank goes into the holy crap category...
cheers mark

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