Hello,
I have also posted this item on other forum sites. I am hoping that someone can give me some advice regarding a problem that I am experiencing with the hydraulics on my recently acquired 1991 Bentley Eight. From day one (early December) I have needed to regularly top up the inboard reservoir with HSMO Plus. I had assumed that there were leaks on the brake cylinders which would need some attention when I had fully studied the workshop manual and when better weather permitted. The brakes seemed quite sharp and curiously there were only very small oil stains underneath two corners of the car and so I was not unduly concerned. I say curiously as I had, in total, put in three or four bottles of HSM oil and the stains combined would only seem to account for about a teacupful at the very most. I had assumed that the missing oil had dripped and had been minutely distributed over the highways and byways of Lincolnshire. Ah, would that it were so, for today I parked the car, facing downwards, on a sloping part of my driveway and discovered to my dismay, a bright green puddle amassing just behind the N/S rear wheel. This puddle was being fed by a fine trickle of oil which appeared to originate from underneath the luggage compartment. I can only imagine that the oil had pooled within the coachwork somewhere and poured out from there due to being on an incline. Upon closer inspection, I could see that the oil was coming from inside the luggage compartment from the region of what I take to be the top of the rear damper strut. There is also a green sphere and a machined metal block into which pass green pipes in the same general area. All around these components is quite oily but I cannot work out the origin of the actual leak. I wonder, have any members had a similar experience or does anyone have an opinion as to what might, or could, be the source of the leak? Thank you.
Andrew Parker
[email protected]
I have also posted this item on other forum sites. I am hoping that someone can give me some advice regarding a problem that I am experiencing with the hydraulics on my recently acquired 1991 Bentley Eight. From day one (early December) I have needed to regularly top up the inboard reservoir with HSMO Plus. I had assumed that there were leaks on the brake cylinders which would need some attention when I had fully studied the workshop manual and when better weather permitted. The brakes seemed quite sharp and curiously there were only very small oil stains underneath two corners of the car and so I was not unduly concerned. I say curiously as I had, in total, put in three or four bottles of HSM oil and the stains combined would only seem to account for about a teacupful at the very most. I had assumed that the missing oil had dripped and had been minutely distributed over the highways and byways of Lincolnshire. Ah, would that it were so, for today I parked the car, facing downwards, on a sloping part of my driveway and discovered to my dismay, a bright green puddle amassing just behind the N/S rear wheel. This puddle was being fed by a fine trickle of oil which appeared to originate from underneath the luggage compartment. I can only imagine that the oil had pooled within the coachwork somewhere and poured out from there due to being on an incline. Upon closer inspection, I could see that the oil was coming from inside the luggage compartment from the region of what I take to be the top of the rear damper strut. There is also a green sphere and a machined metal block into which pass green pipes in the same general area. All around these components is quite oily but I cannot work out the origin of the actual leak. I wonder, have any members had a similar experience or does anyone have an opinion as to what might, or could, be the source of the leak? Thank you.
Andrew Parker
[email protected]