bad oil leak please help
04-11-2006, 05:23 PM
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bad oil leak please help i recently did a h/c swap and today i was gonna check all my fluids and noticed that i have oil splattered all over my intake on the drivers side near the fire wall. there is oil on the top of the intake towards the back mainly on the drivers side as well as on the firewall behind it . the leak is pretty bad, anyone know where it might be comming from. I thought maybe the oil pressure sending unit but my oil pressure guage works fine? please help guys i dont want to pull the intake if i dont have to 
04-11-2006, 05:41 PM
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I'd pull the intake and make sure you didnt crack the oil pressure unit on the back of the block. It HAS to be leaking from the block somewhere if its that much oil as the intake doesnt have any oil being run through it....except your PCV system 
05-11-2006, 09:49 PM
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The PCV system wont leak that much, nowhere close to it, when I did the cam swap on mine the PCV line was completely disconnected and the back of the valvecover was just darker and greasy, not pouring out. Did you do a different valley cover with the swap aswell? Maybe that gasket isnt aligned properly. If not there are 2 sensors back there, one is kinda lodged under the intake, that maybe it, if not then it has to be the oil pressure sending unit, it may be lose. I doubt its your rear cover, I dont see how oil would make it to the top of your intake if it was. I would be VERY VERY suprised if you PCV system leaked that much.
05-11-2006, 09:55 PM
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it has to be the oil pressure sending unit, alot of people break them installing intakes and removing them. hows your oil pressure??? cant be to good if its leaking out of the top of the engine.
