Oil everywhere...
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Oil everywhere...
I had my car up on the hoist and the pan is wet(the whole pan from side to side), the H pipe is wet, the entire tunnel is wet, the rear pig, etc...
From the looks of it you'd imagine I was losing a quart a mile but I never run low.
I do overfill for the track usually a quart and it NEVER drips. I did retorque the pan last summer but it does not seem to help.
If you never put the car in the air and looked you'd never know it was leaking oil which seems strange.
I do change my oil about 6 times a summer because of HPDE's so I never do put any serious mileage on between changes.
Any normal places to check? I was going to pull the pan and maybe replace the gasket but as I said it is everywhere.
From the looks of it you'd imagine I was losing a quart a mile but I never run low.
I do overfill for the track usually a quart and it NEVER drips. I did retorque the pan last summer but it does not seem to help.
If you never put the car in the air and looked you'd never know it was leaking oil which seems strange.
I do change my oil about 6 times a summer because of HPDE's so I never do put any serious mileage on between changes.
Any normal places to check? I was going to pull the pan and maybe replace the gasket but as I said it is everywhere.
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From: Van Buren Arkansas
Wounded Warrior Escort '11
steam or pressure blast it clean then get under there and locate the source. Look at the oil pressure sender and I heard there is a plug for the location that a distributor would go had they used one.
Whatever you do, fix that leak before you run the car. The result of not fixing it is a nice barbecue fire. I guy's '91 here where I live went up in flames thanks to a oil leak that he didn't get to right away.
Whatever you do, fix that leak before you run the car. The result of not fixing it is a nice barbecue fire. I guy's '91 here where I live went up in flames thanks to a oil leak that he didn't get to right away.
Last edited by dgrant3830; Apr 6, 2008 at 07:20 PM.
