Fighting a bad oil leak with high oil pressure

[preludeachris]

Iv been fighting a bad oil leak on my car since my engine rebuild. Part of the reason is the BSE, I did drill out the oil port. Im not sure that it helped very much. Oil seems to be coming from the dipstick tube...I didnt really put anything around the tube when I installed it so could this be part of the problem to? I feel like there is ALOT of puressre for it to be doing this?

 

[Joethefallen23]

There's an o-ring at the end of the dipstick tube. Since you said you didn't install the tube with one, I would bet that's your problem...If you did use one, you might have installed it incorrectly and damaged it.

Oil pressure wouldn't be pushing oil out from the location regardless as oil in the pan is not pressurized. Blow-by or boost entering the crankcase from a failed pcv valve will however cause that. Similar to a dipstick popping out.

 

[preludeachris]

There's an o-ring at the end of the dipstick tube. Since you said you didn't install the tube with one, I would bet that's your problem...If you did use one, you might have installed it incorrectly and damaged it.

Oil pressure wouldn't be pushing oil out from the location regardless as oil in the pan is not pressurized. Blow-by or boost entering the crankcase from a failed pcv valve will however cause that. Similar to a dipstick popping out.

Did not know there was an O ring for the dip stick is that something I can get at a part store?

 

[preludeachris]

UPDATE;

Iv managed to find and O-ring for the dipstick tube Im also going to RTV the top just to be sure nothing will come out, Iv also checked up on a lot of smaller things (connections, lines, cleaned off threads put on new thread sealant and hopefully getting everything sealed up.

Also I didn't mention this before, I found a nice crack around one of the valve cover bolts...I tried to "band-aid it" with JB weld aaaand...it didnt work. lucky I ran into another DSM'er where I live and we did some part swaping. I'll give another update as soon as everything is done.

 

[Joethefallen23]

99.9% of the time these valve covers crack from being over tightened. The fasteners don't need to be gorilla tight. Plenty of people have successfully fixed them with JB-weld, but you need to get the area absolutely pristine to have it set properly.

As for the o-ring, if you managed to track down the right size o-ring, RTV is entirely unnecessary and creates nothing but a mess.

 

[crimsondragon]

UPDATE;

Iv managed to find and O-ring for the dipstick tube Im also going to RTV the top just to be sure nothing will come out, Iv also checked up on a lot of smaller things (connections, lines, cleaned off threads put on new thread sealant and hopefully getting everything sealed up.

Also I didn't mention this before, I found a nice crack around one of the valve cover bolts...I tried to "band-aid it" with JB weld aaaand...it didnt work. lucky I ran into another DSM'er where I live and we did some part swaping. I'll give another update as soon as everything is done.

You're going to RTV the top of a dipstick? Why don't you just remove it and put a plug then?

 

[preludeachris]

You're going to RTV the top of a dipstick? Why don't you just remove it and put a plug then?

Why dont you just keep your comments your yourself...I obviously meant the tube.