Oil leak help needed (again)
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Oil leak help needed (again)
My oil leak is back again and this time I snapped some pics. The other day I went to check my oil as soon as I got home, and when I pulled the dipstick out, a puff of oil smoke came up from underneath the dipstick area. I jacked the car up and checked the dipstick but the area around where it goes into the block is dry. There is a good amount of oil and oil staining behind it, though. It's not coming from the valve cover, seems to begin below that and work its way back.
Here are pics:
Any ideas? I checked oil pressure sending unit etc and those are all fine.
Here are pics:
Any ideas? I checked oil pressure sending unit etc and those are all fine.
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Rear main seal, maybe?
Hard to tell with those pics... I had an oil leak that stained the bottom of my oil pan and it turned out it was blow-back from a leak up at the crank seal. Put a new seal in and no more oil leak.
Hard to tell with those pics... I had an oil leak that stained the bottom of my oil pan and it turned out it was blow-back from a leak up at the crank seal. Put a new seal in and no more oil leak.
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Originally Posted by Tranzor_Z28
Rear main seal, maybe?
Hard to tell with those pics... I had an oil leak that stained the bottom of my oil pan and it turned out it was blow-back from a leak up at the crank seal. Put a new seal in and no more oil leak.
Hard to tell with those pics... I had an oil leak that stained the bottom of my oil pan and it turned out it was blow-back from a leak up at the crank seal. Put a new seal in and no more oil leak.
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Originally Posted by technical
How about a picture of the front bottom of the motor. Maybe the crank/balancer seal is leaking.