jlaw

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.

technical

Need a better pic of the block/head mating area. And get some light in there.

Tranzor

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.

SStheBest

iTrader: (2)

i was thinkin the same thing(a/b the oil bearing)...boy thats not gonna be fun......IF its the problem

jlaw

It's not the rear main seal... I first noticed the leak when I was having the tranny rebuilt and had a chance to check the rear main.

technical

How about a picture of the front bottom of the motor. Maybe the crank/balancer seal is leaking.

Tranzor

Yep, what I was thinking... the blowback pattern of the oil is similar to what mine looked like when I had a significant crank seal leak.