arronm Dropping a turd Gold Donating Members 9,520 Member For: 17y 2m 8d Gender: Male Location: Perth Posted 03/03/12 04:29 AM Share Posted 03/03/12 04:29 AM (edited) Well after pressing the clutch in and the air cond turning off in the Nizpro car I thought I better investigate.So I found the earls kit that had done approx 2000ks had started to leak oil at the crimp fitting as it entered the oil filter.The oil had ran down the inside of the clear outer sleeve and as the line had rubbed on the water line and had holed, the oil dripped down onto the air cond connection.The above pic shows the whole kit with brown oil stained line at the bottom of the picThe above pic shows the crimp that failed and started to leakThe above pic shows the area in the clear sleeve that rubbed through allowing the oil to escapeThe above pic shows how I installed my line on my F6. The oil line that failed was ran on top of the water line and rubbed through the clear sleeve at the bottom.We have now seen may of these crimped lines fail , especially adjacent to the turbo.Do not order these crimp style. Edited 03/03/12 04:33 AM by arronm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bossmang FREAKY Donating Members 12,433 Member For: 15y 9d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne Posted 03/03/12 04:46 AM Share Posted 03/03/12 04:46 AM gee that sucks, and yer you can clearly see the clear coat on it wow.this is a good heads up for others wondering about what line kit to look for as people are not sure what type of line to avoid.are you going to order another earls kit? whats the go from here as im sure others are in the same situation? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arronm Dropping a turd Gold Donating Members 9,520 Member For: 17y 2m 8d Gender: Male Location: Perth Posted 03/03/12 04:59 AM Author Share Posted 03/03/12 04:59 AM Yep getting a new one under warranty but with the normal screw fittings Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ratter Member 6,793 Member For: 18y 7m 7d Gender: Male Location: @ my laptop Posted 03/03/12 05:07 AM Share Posted 03/03/12 05:07 AM We have seen these fail not long after they introduced them as I have posted several times, Earls swear I was the only one seeing issues, they did replace the affected ones under warranty for me as some of my customers here know, but they still said they were not having issues. They now will do the original style hose and screw type fittings at an extra cost Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pazzo Donating Members 11,132 Member For: 14y 2m 13d Gender: Male Posted 03/03/12 05:10 AM Share Posted 03/03/12 05:10 AM Ratter, do the oil feed lines stock fail on FG? as looks bigger. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bossmang FREAKY Donating Members 12,433 Member For: 15y 9d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne Posted 03/03/12 05:10 AM Share Posted 03/03/12 05:10 AM yer sorry mick forgot to mention you found this problem a while ago with this crimp style fitting.so is having a clear coat on them ok or normal for braided lines? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kosij Donating Members 2,045 Member For: 13y 4m 24d Gender: Male Posted 03/03/12 05:13 AM Share Posted 03/03/12 05:13 AM Anyone got a picture of the good sort of oil line without the crimped ends? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ratter Member 6,793 Member For: 18y 7m 7d Gender: Male Location: @ my laptop Posted 03/03/12 05:18 AM Share Posted 03/03/12 05:18 AM Ratter, do the oil feed lines stock fail on FG? as looks bigger.The fg's filter is probably 4 times as big as the previous ones, but I guess over time if enough sludge forms in the motor then yes they can fail Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ratter Member 6,793 Member For: 18y 7m 7d Gender: Male Location: @ my laptop Posted 03/03/12 05:20 AM Share Posted 03/03/12 05:20 AM yer sorry mick forgot to mention you found this problem a while ago with this crimp style fitting.so is having a clear coat on them ok or normal for braided lines?No worries mate, not looking for credit or anything, just confirming what has been posted is not a one off.The clear coated lines in conjunction with the crimped fittings are the problem and I thing that any hose using the screw type fittings requires the original style hose, not the coated hose Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bossmang FREAKY Donating Members 12,433 Member For: 15y 9d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne Posted 03/03/12 05:22 AM Share Posted 03/03/12 05:22 AM all goodits just good of arronm to post up some pics too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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