Oil leaks
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Oil leaks I have an 02 WS6 LS1 it has 200k miles on it. Still runs great, doesn't smoke, it has had Mobile 1 Synthetic oil changed every 5k miles and starting to leak oil from what I can tell the rest main and possibly rear of intake. Is it worth it to pull engine and seal leaks and keep going? I would like to rebuild with higher performance but may be a few years before I am able to do that, my fear at this point is that the leaking oil ends up on exhaust and besides the burning smell I'm afraid of this causing a fire.
Any thoughts?
Earl
Any thoughts?
Earl
It's not a hard thing to pull the intake off and check the condition of the valley cover just to rule that out and clean everything out real good. Go to Ls1howto.com and go to the ls6 valley cover tab to see how to pull the intake. I just did that this month and cleaned the intake and runners up real good and replaced all the gaskets.
Mines got 127k the oil pan leaks, probably rear main seal and maybe another place. Not even enough that it drips on the concrete but I know its there. I wont address it unless a new motor goes in. I think its pretty common.
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I have an 02 WS6 LS1 it has 200k miles on it. Still runs great, doesn't smoke, it has had Mobile 1 Synthetic oil changed every 5k miles and starting to leak oil from what I can tell the rest main and possibly rear of intake. Is it worth it to pull engine and seal leaks and keep going? I would like to rebuild with higher performance but may be a few years before I am able to do that, my fear at this point is that the leaking oil ends up on exhaust and besides the burning smell I'm afraid of this causing a fire.
Any thoughts?
Earl
Any thoughts?
Earl
I have an 02 WS6 LS1 it has 200k miles on it. Still runs great, doesn't smoke, it has had Mobile 1 Synthetic oil changed every 5k miles and starting to leak oil from what I can tell the rest main and possibly rear of intake. Is it worth it to pull engine and seal leaks and keep going? I would like to rebuild with higher performance but may be a few years before I am able to do that, my fear at this point is that the leaking oil ends up on exhaust and besides the burning smell I'm afraid of this causing a fire.
Any thoughts?
Earl
Any thoughts?
Earl
Also, many times if it looks like your intake manifold is leaking, it is actually the PCV letting oil into your intake manifold. Best way to address this is when you're inspecting your valley cover gasket, just replace the cover with the LS6 cover, which has the PCV built into it. Many times it is still necessary to add a catch can as well.
Hope all that helps!
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A pain but necessary on high mileage cars
oil pan is hard to because it's riveted to the pan and the kmember has to be partially dropped to replace it..
Most people wait until they do a converter/clutch install to do the rear main seal unless it's a major leak..
I would look for the leak and if it's an easy fix then go for it, if it's one of the above and not too bad I would wait until you mod it. Unless you do all the labor yourself it can be a very expensive fix at the dealer.
Also don't let just any shop work on it since theses engines have special alignment procedures/tools that are used to insure leak proof seals. I knew someone who had a rear main seal leak 2 times after letting a local shop fix it with no Ls experience..
I finally did it and it has never leaked again..
Good luck
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