Another Oil Leak thread

[CRUZTAKER]

About the same time Ross found his leak, I found one as well. Not being so knowledgable in the field of finding leaks, I asked one of the techs at Dynotec today.

The little oil puddle I found on what I referred to as "the pully in the lower center" of the motor, aka balancer, is where the leak originates.

Apparently I have some type of seal failure.:eek:

The car is parked for the winter, and actually has been parked alot lately...maybe this is the reason for the failure. Either way, I sure hope the dealer doesn't give me any crap about this premature failure. It just seems alot of stuff has failed recently.

[gdmjoe]

About the same time Ross found his leak, I found one as well. Not being so knowledgable in the field of finding leaks, I asked one of the techs at Dynotec today.

The little oil puddle I found on what I referred to as "the pully in the lower center" of the motor, aka balancer, is where the leak originates.

Apparently I have some type of seal failure.:eek:

The car is parked for the winter, and actually has been parked alot lately...maybe this is the reason for the failure. Either way, I sure hope the dealer doesn't give me any crap about this premature failure. It just seems alot of stuff has failed recently.
Reviewing you mod's I noticed that you have the Steeda underdrive pulleys; could be something as simple as the silicone sealant in the harmonic balancer keyway - no enough, or maybe it let go.

[Panther II]

If you have U/D's pull the crank pully and clean out the key slot and reapply some RTV and oil up the inner portion of the pulley and put it back in and see if that worked. If you take it to the dealer the dealer will think of some BS excuse of what one of your mods caused it. They said my friends mufflers were so loud that they caused his CD player to malfunction and wouldnt replace it. Mind you this is a 02 CVLX Sport and he had mild Flowmasters (50 series I think), you could put tint on the windows and they would say that it caused the engine to leak oil because the person that installed the tint caused some type of line failure leading to the engine. Ofcourse it wouldnt be something that stupid but you get the idea. Dealers sometimes..... :(

[Haggis]

About the same time Ross found his leak, I found one as well. Not being so knowledgable in the field of finding leaks, I asked one of the techs at Dynotec today.

The little oil puddle I found on what I referred to as "the pully in the lower center" of the motor, aka balancer, is where the leak originates.

Apparently I have some type of seal failure.:eek:

The car is parked for the winter, and actually has been parked alot lately...maybe this is the reason for the failure. Either way, I sure hope the dealer doesn't give me any crap about this premature failure. It just seems alot of stuff has failed recently.

Sorry to hear of your misfortune Barry :depress: , hope you get it fixed soon. Keep us posted on your findings, did you ever notice a oil pressure drop or a low reading on the dip stick?

[CRUZTAKER]

Hey thanks for the advice. :up: That just might do the trick.

And Gordon, no major oil issues, like I said, it's still in the class-I (leak) stage of the game

[Ross]

AAAHHHHGGGG!!! I hate leaks! Good luck, Barry.