The car has been parked in my garage. I’ve been out of town almost every day the last couple weeks. I get home from St. Kitts where I am now on Monday. Then I’ll hopefully be able to give it to my friend at his shop.
I waned to leave all the fluid on it so he can see it as-is to maybe see what I missed.

He has those air compressor brake fluid canisters so he’ll clean it all really good over there. I really don’t want to spray 5-6 cans of brake fluid in my driveway either.

Soon…..we’ll know. But my power steering fluid is completely topped off.

 

I think we can all agree on one thing.

when full our power steering dip stick that’s built into the cap always sits barely in the fluid.

The tip of the dipstick is still sitting in the fluid.

Surely the large amount of wet and dripping fluid I found everywhere would have dropped the fluid level below where the tip sits when the cap is on……

It’s completely full up the dipstick about 1/4”.


Agreed?

 

Believe me, I want to figure this out more than anyone. My oil was so low the day this happened I’m worried it will happen again.

Oil has remained completely full since this happened when I topped it back off. There was hardly any oil on the tip of the dipstick when this happened.

Im thinking when the A/C belt came off and partially shredded and then wrapped around the crank snout it got jammed in there pretty good (engine side right where the front seal is) and maybe while it was in there and still driving it pushed on the seal and oil sprayed out of it. It’s the furthest spot forward where maybe it could have made oil get onto the A/C pulleys.

But I’m trying to remember how flexible the seal is at the area where it wraps around the crank shaft. I thought it was really hard material there.

Then I unwrapped all the belt pieces and now it’s sealed again…..no more oil leaking.

Hell, I don’t know.

 

I'm going to close this thread as we've identified the culprit from the original post. If the OP is still in disbelief then they or others can search the 25+ years of the threads on this site for more correlation. Taking a sample of the oil out for external forensic analysis could also provide more confidence.

 

Actually, brake cleaner works wonders when sprayed on a driveway if anything oily has been spilled or dripped. I use it to spot-clean my driveway all the time, it won't hurt the cement at all. Obviously, this is only for a cement driveway (don't use it on blacktop).

 

This stuff works great getting oil out of concrete. It takes some time for the oil to work back up and out but I can't see any trace of oil spots left when an uninvited guest parked their beater on my driveway.