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Old 02-26-2012, 10:55 AM
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I noticed I can see oil leaking coming from above back of motor and trans, almost looks like there's a good chance it could be getting in on flywheel and clutch, could this be the cause of vibrations and clutch pulling hard sometimes then other times slip feeling???

Where can the oil be coming from? It's not major, can't even see oil level dropping on dipstick, small leak
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Rear main seal?
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Nah its from up above like toward to back half of block
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Oil pressure sending unit
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+1 on the oil pressure sending unit. I had what I thought was a bad rear main seal, but upon removing the trans, I could see it wasn't the rear main seal. The sending unit above had separated and was spewing oil all over.



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