Upper push rod tubes oil leak

[Mattaxi]

Hi, i have a 1300 engine and it is leaking oil, the problem is coming from the left hand side of the lower engine, the oil is dripping from on top of the push rod tubes, what do you think could be the problem?

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1958 Beetle

[glutamodo]

Left hand side... probably oil cooler leaks, or cylinder base gaskets depending on exactly where on the tubes it's showing up. (If it's on the head-end of the tubes, could be rocker studs, but those kind of leaks are not very common on 1300/newer square-boss heads, and when you do see them, they are usually slow long-term seepage kind of leaks)
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Andy T.


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[HRVW]

Other then what has been said.....a minute hair line crack under the oil cooler rabbit ears (seen that many times in past years working on engines)

[glutamodo]

That's a good point, I've seen that before as well.
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Andy T.


IMAGE NOTE: It has been noted that Chrome based browsers may have issues in displaying my vast image library, which use non-secure links and are on an FTP server. Images should still be viewable if the link is clicked though.
I do not know how to fix this. All I can say is it all works fine for me with what I use, Firefox.

[Dougy Dee]

Split or rotted out pushrod tube?