So noticed a pool of red fluid under the car the other day and then opened the reservoir to find it on the min/near empty.

Was in Swindon when this happened but luckily i had a 1L bottle of PAS fluid on me in the car at the time. Some of you may remember me changing the fluid repeatedly and having Stu fit a new PAS pump as the fluid had been milky for some time which ended up knackering the pump.

Anyway, noticed the leak was dropping near the back of the block/under the subframe.

So managed to get it up on a lift today so could give it a proper nose to see where it was coming from.

Turns out its the RAM thats leaking through the seal.

I ripped the black bag a little some time back and i guess this has allowed grit to get in and damage the seal.





So how do i go about repairing this? Is it just a simple case of unbolting the RAM and bolting in a replacement??

Also discovered my cam carriers are still leaking oil down the back of the engine as there was fresh drops all over.

Rather annoying as i had them done/resealed about a year ago at Carl's. So seems this is going to need doing again!

It would explain why my car uses oil between its 10K miles intervals.


Anyway, new oil and filter today and cleaned the green cotton air filter too. So shes sweet again bar the leaky RAM and carriers......

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Mine was doing the same last year just before i went to Nurburgring, i was concerned about putting fluid on track so got a second hand one from another member for £25 and bolted it on. job done.

Job took about an hour , it was a little fiddly unscrewing the flare nut things but not too bad.

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Just replace the RAM shouldn't be much from a scrappy. I wouldn't worry about it though, mines been leeking since i bought it nearly 3 years ago, i just top it up. However i will be doing away with the PAS when i do the cambelt.

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Oh also i have noticed a humming sound when i reach 65mph +

Realised this is probably the PAS pump itself as since i topped up the fluid it hasnt made the sound

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Bump - does anyone know if the GTi6 RAM is specific to the model or is it the same RAM as on other 306's? For example the 1.8 or XSI?

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stilly changed the ram on my old china as i had the same problem your having a while back with leaking fluid. basicly just got another gti6 pas ram. job done

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