cswindel
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- Jan 13, 2023
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Georgia
Didn't want to make a whole thread on this but I also really don't want to keep putting on and taking off the same parts constantly so here it is:
I'm still so confused. I have triple checked and the only thing I can reason without starting the car to verify is its the oil pan in the same spot as last time (I say last time because I already dropped and resealed the oil pan previously in the hopes that was the leak). I've attached a video with the front timing cover removed and the literal only area that I can identify "yep there is oil" is on the oil pan seal.
As a note, I did use just RTV the first time I sealed the oil pan and I wanted to try a new method so no its not because I'm using cork with RTV. AND this is a brand new OEM oil pan that I very delicately dropped 1 time for said re-seal (it took 2 days for me to drop it so yes I was as delicate as possible). And pretty much everything front case and timing side is new with new hardware. Only things that aren't are the engine mount bracket part and the oil filter housing.
I don't have much other troubleshooting that I have done thus far, unfortunately, and it seems like all the other threads have a better indication of the source of the oil. Is this a common area on the oil pans for oil to seep from? Any help or suggestion I am game for. If you tell me to kick rocks, throw the crank pulley and alt belt back on and fire it up to look for the leak well fair enough, you're not wrong
I'm still so confused. I have triple checked and the only thing I can reason without starting the car to verify is its the oil pan in the same spot as last time (I say last time because I already dropped and resealed the oil pan previously in the hopes that was the leak). I've attached a video with the front timing cover removed and the literal only area that I can identify "yep there is oil" is on the oil pan seal.
As a note, I did use just RTV the first time I sealed the oil pan and I wanted to try a new method so no its not because I'm using cork with RTV. AND this is a brand new OEM oil pan that I very delicately dropped 1 time for said re-seal (it took 2 days for me to drop it so yes I was as delicate as possible). And pretty much everything front case and timing side is new with new hardware. Only things that aren't are the engine mount bracket part and the oil filter housing.
I don't have much other troubleshooting that I have done thus far, unfortunately, and it seems like all the other threads have a better indication of the source of the oil. Is this a common area on the oil pans for oil to seep from? Any help or suggestion I am game for. If you tell me to kick rocks, throw the crank pulley and alt belt back on and fire it up to look for the leak well fair enough, you're not wrong
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I did figure out what it was and strangly enough it was coming from the front case bolt hole for one of the front timing cover bolts. Thank you for bringing me back to this for the update!
