Oil pan leak
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Oil pan leak
I'm not driving my vette as much as I used to so when I last took it out, I noticed some oil on the garage floor. My mechanic checked it and told me there was a leak around the oil pan and the only way to replace the gasket was to pull the engine. Is that correct?
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Or try Titan Oil Stop-Leak. I had the same diagnosis with my 04 Murano. I Needed to pull the engine to fix the upper pan gasket. No Way. I either will put up with the leak or try something else. I researched and found the Product TITAN Oil Stop-Leak. I decided what the he**, and bought it. Not cheap. But it is still working after 12 months AND if it starts leaking again, you get a second free.
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Or try Titan Oil Stop-Leak. I had the same diagnosis with my 04 Murano. I Needed to pull the engine to fix the upper pan gasket. No Way. I either will put up with the leak or try something else. I researched and found the Product TITAN Oil Stop-Leak. I decided what the he**, and bought it. Not cheap. But it is still working after 12 months AND if it starts leaking again, you get a second free.
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You do not have to pull the motor. I just did this job on 2 C5s. You can support the motor from above and drop the front suspension out. If you take your time this is a fairly easy job. Mine and my friends were leaking pretty bad and we had had enough.
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That's another good option I suppose. The subframe would come out easily enough.
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This is how mine was fixed. I needed to get an alignment afterwards though.
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Just MHO
I have never been one for 'miracle cure in a bottle'. Not saying what was recommended is good or bad, just have never had one work for me, over promised and under delivered.
Kind of like putting a raw egg in your radiator to stop a small leak. Sure it hard boils and stops the leak temporarily and clogs up a lot of other small passages that you didn't want plugged.
Bite the bullet and fix it right.
Kind of like putting a raw egg in your radiator to stop a small leak. Sure it hard boils and stops the leak temporarily and clogs up a lot of other small passages that you didn't want plugged.
Bite the bullet and fix it right.
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If it's the lower pan try to re-torque the bolts
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I have never been one for 'miracle cure in a bottle'. Not saying what was recommended is good or bad, just have never had one work for me, over promised and under delivered.
Kind of like putting a raw egg in your radiator to stop a small leak. Sure it hard boils and stops the leak temporarily and clogs up a lot of other small passages that you didn't want plugged.
Bite the bullet and fix it right.
Kind of like putting a raw egg in your radiator to stop a small leak. Sure it hard boils and stops the leak temporarily and clogs up a lot of other small passages that you didn't want plugged.
Bite the bullet and fix it right.
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