dsm4bk
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- Nov 25, 2002
My 95 CW'd, so I got a '97 engine swapped in, and the guy who did the swap for me eliminated the balance shafts. He left one shaft in, and put the stub shaft in the other.
I got the car back from him in December, and now 3 months later there is a really big oil leak (leak could have always been there and got worse over time) I got people to look at it and they cannot see where it is coming from, because they said its coming from behind the front cover (they'd need to take all the belts, covers off to see) They say it is most likely and oil seal, or if the guy tightened the front cover too hard, it could have cracked, or a screw from a tensioner might have come out. So I told the guy who did the swap for me to check it out to see if he finds something that he did wrong, and he doesn't want anything to do with it (hes done work for me in the past, so I trusted him) but I paid good cash for the whole swap.
How likely would you say that it is his error that I'm getting a bad oil leak after only 3 months????? the car is close to stock, so don't say anything can happen blah blah blah.
Everytime I drive somewhere, I can pull the car back a few feet and see a few oil puddles from under the timing area, so when I drive, it must really piss out of there.
Please help.
I got the car back from him in December, and now 3 months later there is a really big oil leak (leak could have always been there and got worse over time) I got people to look at it and they cannot see where it is coming from, because they said its coming from behind the front cover (they'd need to take all the belts, covers off to see) They say it is most likely and oil seal, or if the guy tightened the front cover too hard, it could have cracked, or a screw from a tensioner might have come out. So I told the guy who did the swap for me to check it out to see if he finds something that he did wrong, and he doesn't want anything to do with it (hes done work for me in the past, so I trusted him) but I paid good cash for the whole swap.
How likely would you say that it is his error that I'm getting a bad oil leak after only 3 months????? the car is close to stock, so don't say anything can happen blah blah blah.
Everytime I drive somewhere, I can pull the car back a few feet and see a few oil puddles from under the timing area, so when I drive, it must really piss out of there.
Please help.
