Oil Leak

[Pete_89T2]

Originally Posted by TitaniumTT

Thing to do is clean the oil cooler lines with a degreaser, dry them off, top off the oil and let her run for a while. But, if you're still using the stock lines, it's more than likely them. Racing Beat, Mazdatrix, Turblown Engineering and Banzai all make aftermkt lines. I don't have experience with any of them but I can tell you the CorkSport lines that I had (cheapest at the time) where garbage and leaked.

The other option is take them down to a hydraulic shop and have them crimp on some new lines using the old fittings.

Roger to what TTT said.

FWIW, I had the Corksport lines on my car for over 10 years without issues, but a few months ago the long line just started slowly leaking at the crimp joint, oil cooler side. I tried to get my lines repaired at a local hydraulics shop, but since none of them would reuse the existing banjo fittings (liability reasons), they couldn't do it for less than the cost of a new set of lines from any of the sources mentioned anyway. So just out of curiousity, I called Corksport to ask them about new lines, and to tell them what happened to my old CS lines, figuring the warranty was long since expired anyway. To my surprise, they acknowledged that the design of the lines they were producing 10 years ago could have been better, and they offered me a very deep discount on a set of new lines. So I took them up on the offer, and the design improvement in the new lines is visably obvious - beefier hose, better banjo fittings & crimp sleeves. If I still have one of the old lines lying around, I'll take a side-by-side photo so you can see what I mean.