oil loss problem

[racingp]

Hello,

Yesterday in my gsxr1000 turbo I saw that it was leaking oil from somewhere in the engine and today I saw that it was leaking oil from the cometic jc0001 head gasket, is this normal for this to happen, how could it have happened?

 

[wreckwriter]

Boost puts additional pressure on head gaskets. Most likely you're going to have to pull the head and change it. Use a top quality gasket and make sure everything is torqued correctly.

 

[pcs]

you can try re torquing the head and verified non of the hardware got loose. you can check coolant to see if you getting oil in there and add some oil dye to verify it’s coming from there before you pull head off. gasket could have gone bad, boost can lift the head off the cylinder during high boost, multiple reason could be the issue. you could try taking the head torque to the top of the torque spec range to see if that helps. are you using a head stud kit?

 

[Dustin02]

Those Cometic gaskets like a certain finish on the sealing surfaces as well... If it isn't correct, they will leak a little oil like that.

 

[racingp]

Hello guys, I have already found the problem, the fault was one of the loose timing tensioner bolts and the oil came out from there.

Thank you all

 

[Dustin02]

Awesome! Got lucky on that one!

 

[JeffSyh]

Boost puts additional pressure on head gaskets. Most likely you're going to have to pull the head and change it. Use a top quality gasket and make sure everything is torqued correctly.

99% of the time coolant will be the first sign of a head gasket before oil on any engine. Oil feed ports are farther then coolant ports

 

[Berlin Germany]

i hope u gave the M6 - bolt not more than 10 Nm - more could risk a thread-rip-out in the aluminium !!!

 

[wreckwriter]

99% of the time coolant will be the first sign of a head gasket before oil on any engine. Oil feed ports are farther then coolant ports

Agreed but most of the time the coolant will be in the oil rather than leaking externally. In my experience anyway.