Oil leak

silentneon01 · Post by **silentneon01** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 1:39 am

On a full dip stick it goes down to the halfway mark every 1,500 miles.

I thought it was burning it cause I see no visable leaks nor smoke out the tail pipe.

Well I was under the car and looked at the oil filter it had crud on it but at the base I could see oil that wasn't gunked up and looked clean. I wipe everything down and going to check again in the morning. But what could cause a leak from the filter area. The fliter is more then hand tight I know that but I think there is a seal somewhere near the filter could that be leaking?

hansken_yo · Post by **hansken_yo** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 2:40 am

just out of curiosity, what oil are you using?

This happened to me when I used Mobile 1... then I switched to RedLine and it stopped happening.

WykedHellFire · Post by **WykedHellFire** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 4:49 am

the same thing happened to me...i went around for awhile trying to find the problem....turned out i needed a couple things but it might be your oil pan gasket? could be....fixed my problem. I also needed a valve cover gasket as well though. hope i helped atleast some.

BlackRoseRacing · Post by **BlackRoseRacing** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 6:56 am

could also be the cam seal behind the pulley, there known to walk out and there is a TSB retainer to hold them in. Also it could be your oil filter adapter to base gasket wich is also known to leak....

WykedHellFire · Post by **WykedHellFire** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 9:47 am

BlackRoseRacing wrote:could also be the cam seal behind the pulley, there known to walk out and there is a TSB retainer to hold them in. Also it could be your oil filter adapter to base gasket wich is also known to leak....

actually my filter adapter base gasket went too

lvlistchif · Post by **lvlistchif** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 9:50 am

check your oil filter, check the gasket on your oil filter, at my work sence spring break weve had about 3 cars come in with blown motors because whoever chaged there oil double gasketed there oil filter. when you take off your oil filter check to see if there is 1 gasket or 2 stuck together,

WykedHellFire · Post by **WykedHellFire** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 9:51 am

lvlistchif wrote:check your oil filter, check the gasket on your oil filter, at my work sence spring break weve had about 3 cars come in with blown motors because whoever chaged there oil double gasketed there oil filter. when you take off your oil filter check to see if there is 1 gasket or 2 stuck together,

not removing the old gasket when putting the new one on ftl?

silentneon01 · Post by **silentneon01** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 10:19 am

jiffy lube does my oil changes cause I have no place to do them myself.

I use penzoil platuim have used syn oil since I bought the car in 01.

lvlistchif · Post by **lvlistchif** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 11:13 am

yes FTL... it leaks slowly but it will eventually leak all out, the people who come in are normally woman or people who dont check there oil often so they want us to do it for them so if it was to leak out all the way they wouldnt notice. you wont see puddles under your car because theres no pressure in your oil system when the cars off.

Post by **racer12306** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 11:13 am

i think BRR is on the right track with this one.

you would know if it was double gasketed, they dont just leak, they spew oil everywhere. you would have one hell of a mess.

lvlistchif · Post by **lvlistchif** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 11:16 am

no it dosent spew out, its a leak, yes it can spew but on some cars there oil filters are bigger and smaller, we had a old toyota come in last week when it got there it only leaked when the car was on, it was low, she had a semi big filter, im assuming filter sizes has to do with it because the ones that blew there motors came in within 24 hours, well more like towed in but they all had small filters/

quicksilvr · Post by **quicksilvr** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 1:09 pm

BlackRoseRacing wrote:could also be the cam seal behind the pulley, there known to walk out and there is a TSB retainer to hold them in. Also it could be your oil filter adapter to base gasket wich is also known to leak....

My bet is on either the oil filter adapter gasket, or on the actual oil pump. My oil pump leaks, and gets that whole area of the pan and filter oily. I'm not too worried about it, because I'll be rebuilding the bottom end, but if I wasn't, I'd be getting a new oil pump.

silentneon01 · Post by **silentneon01** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 10:04 pm

well 100 miles later filter still clean as a whistle.

And I have no oily mess that i can find or see. Unless its behind the header and being burned off.

I'll take it up to my cusions shop next week see if he can see anything. Hate to take it there cause even though we family he still charges cause ya got to make a living.