I have been trying to track down a mysterious oil leak on my TMX-IOF 360 with no luck. I noticed some light misting of oil on the insides of both of the cooling air inlets for my plenum. The following pictures shows the location of the misting on the right inlet. Note the proximity directly across from the ring gear. One would think maybe a front seal issue? However, when I look and feel around the inside of the ring gear and hub it is completely dry.
Looking around other parts of the engine, paying special attention to the case halves seal, the cylinders, and oil return lines show no evidence of oil! The only place where I see oil is a drip on the bottom of the Skytec starter, looking very closely there is a run mark where oil came from the top of the starter. It leads to a small collection of oil on the starter mount. See picture
There is no oil any farther up from this area that I can tell. I clean everything up, run the engine some more and get the same misting and collection of oil on the starter mount. Anybody have any ideas?
Thanks,
Jason
Looking around other parts of the engine, paying special attention to the case halves seal, the cylinders, and oil return lines show no evidence of oil! The only place where I see oil is a drip on the bottom of the Skytec starter, looking very closely there is a run mark where oil came from the top of the starter. It leads to a small collection of oil on the starter mount. See picture
There is no oil any farther up from this area that I can tell. I clean everything up, run the engine some more and get the same misting and collection of oil on the starter mount. Anybody have any ideas?
Thanks,
Jason