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If I had oil drops under my car roughly in the area between the engine and gearbox (I am asking for a friend ) and the following root causes can be excluded: - crankshaft seal (no oil in the clutch area, no oil coming out of the bottom hole of the bellhousing) - valve cover (I am using the improved silikone version and have to oil leak in this area ever since) - crank case breather (open system, but no oil in in the outlet area) - oil pan seal (exchanged, cleaned checked lately - no oil visible in that area) What else could be a potential leakage are ?

very helpful post - Thanks a lot Rob! Will further investigate and as well just realized, that the needle seems to be stuck sometimes (knocking at the gage will "motivate" it to show the correct reading....

Another question: When driving without lights, the amp meter shows approx 7-8 Amps. When swithing the lights on, it will fall back on "0". Never payed too much attention but have never realized in the past... Any advice which readings should be considered normal ? I should mention, that I have had the generator and regulator checked together by an expert who said, that the regulator needed some readjustment. Although I have no reason not to trust the expert, it would not be the first time, that touching a running system has not been a good idea ....

All right, the emagnetic mat approach was not very successful. The magnetic foce was far away of the spec and of my expectations- so just sent back teh stuff. Will now go for a adhesive daming mat approach for (two mats - structural morne nosie and air borne noise). The rubber block pretension idea may be worth a thought and investigation....

... hold my beer

Hello Gentlemen, Thanks for the tons of feedback. I have ordered a 1,5 mm magnetic mat, which should hold 100g/mm2 according to the spec (you please do the tech conversion to your fancy system yourself ) Its the weight of a bar of chocolate per size of your Thumbnail, which should be sufficient for any standard noise damping mat weight. Will further proceed and keep you posted.. Cheers Oliver

Hello Gentlemen, All problems fixed, all improvements implemented ... so whats next ? I love the TR bonnet, however think is is not very well developed considering noise and vibration aspects. I therefore think about applying some noise damping mats. I am just reluctant to glue them in, hence think about a magnetic solution. I am wondering if such solutions are available on the market. As an alternative, I have discovered magnetic foil which could be attached to a standard noise damping mat. The assembly could then be attached under the bonnet and would be nicely removable any