Testing oil to determine kind ?

[barneythedinosaur]

Is there a way i could test the slight oil leak i am having to determine where it's coming from.
My vehicle leak cannot be inspected visually without taking most of it apart, so now i'd like to try and take oul from the dipstick and a sample from on top the gasket to try and compare the 2 and see if it's the same oil or gearbox oil.

 

[Neuk_]

If you can't easily trace the leak and want to have the oil tested you would need to find a lab that does oil testing, chat to Stuart at TechniLube who I am sure can point you in the right direction...

http://www.technilube.co.za/

 

[TheChamp]

Keep everything related to your issue in one thread. I seem to remember you created one in the motoring section.
Yes, here https://mybroadband.co.za/forum/threads/2006-407-2-7-hdi-oil-leak.982539/#post-22279237

 

[chemfis]

How on earth would gearbox oil get through to your head gasket?

 

[ArtyLoop]

Gearbox oil has a distinctive smell of sulphur... that's usually how you can tell it apart from other oils

 

[TheChamp]

How on earth would gearbox oil get through to your head gasket?

Nothing said about the head gasket.

 

[smkungfu]

Gearbox oil is a light pink colour with a sweet smell.

 

[qscwbt]

You want to pay a lab Probably 5k to tell you if it is gearbox oil or engine oil?

 

[SauRoNZA]

Just do it the way every mechanic would do it.

Anything else will simply cost more money.

 

[TheChamp]

You want to pay a lab Probably 5k to tell you if it is gearbox oil or engine oil?

That would be a total waste of time and money, I would put all my efforts on finding the leak, why even care if it is transmission oil or engine oil?

 

[Rickster]

Gearbox oil is a light pink colour with a sweet smell.

By sweet do you mean rotting fish smell?

 

[ArtyLoop]

Gearbox oil is a light pink colour with a sweet smell.

Not always... more often its clear, but has that distinctive smell you cannot miss.

 

[smkungfu]

Not always... more often its clear, but has that distinctive smell you cannot miss.

Ok sorry, ATF oil has a sweet smell and pink colour.

 

[ubercal]

Is there a way i could test the slight oil leak i am having to determine where it's coming from.
My vehicle leak cannot be inspected visually without taking most of it apart, so now i'd like to try and take oul from the dipstick and a sample from on top the gasket to try and compare the 2 and see if it's the same oil or gearbox oil.

I took some engine oil to a company called Wear Check in KZN.They only charge a few hundred rands.

 

[ArtyLoop]

Ok sorry, ATF oil has a sweet smell and pink colour.

Yes that'd be DEXRON III

 

[qscwbt]

most mechanic can tell what oil it is by look and smell.

 

[TheFriendlyGhost]

Is there a way i could test the slight oil leak i am having to determine where it's coming from.
My vehicle leak cannot be inspected visually without taking most of it apart, so now i'd like to try and take oul from the dipstick and a sample from on top the gasket to try and compare the 2 and see if it's the same oil or gearbox oil.

Which gasket?

 

[GoB]

Just worked with CVT oil, it's delicious based on smell.

 

[Y'all Qaeda]

Is there a way i could test the slight oil leak i am having to determine where it's coming from.
My vehicle leak cannot be inspected visually without taking most of it apart, so now i'd like to try and take oul from the dipstick and a sample from on top the gasket to try and compare the 2 and see if it's the same oil or gearbox oil.

If it is the same oil, then surely the oil level would be getting lower? That you can see by using said dipstick to monitor the levels.

 

[TheChamp]

Which gasket?

Sump gasket.