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shadowdrag

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Oct 17, 2005
Beaverton, Oregon
I just checked oil level, and the oil was almost completely gone, just a little at the tip of the dipstick. Did an oil change and found oil leaking all over tranny, coming down from back of the engine onto the left drive axel and cat converter. There was no sign of oil leaking onto the concrete because it runs down onto the down pipe and gets burned. I lower the boost to 14psi and the car still runs good. no sign of oil in the coolant or coolant in the oil. Yesterday, I got on it on first gear abit to hard and oil came pouring out. You can see the smoke from oil burning coming out from under the car (side fenders). Stock boost gauge knock sum ran up to 7 counts of knock and was stuck there.

What can this be? Did I just blew my HG. If so how much is it to get it done?
 
when you say left side, do you mean driver or passenger. if driver you could have just about anything leaking, oil pump, main seal, or heck just about anything. on the other side it would limited mostly to the valve cover or possibly your turbo blowing oil...

you need to find where its comming from first
 
drewvr4 said:
when you say left side, do you mean driver or passenger. if driver you could have just about anything leaking, oil pump, main seal, or heck just about anything. on the other side it would limited mostly to the valve cover or possibly your turbo blowing oil...

you need to find where its comming from first


mostly seeing oil from driver side axel, oil pan and down pipe.
 
Wicked96GS-T said:
Could be your oil pump seal, is your timing belt covered in oil?


I will check the timing cover this evening when I get off work. The last thing I did to the car was replaced all belts, AC, Alt, PS, timing belt was not change, oh and did the lifters. The motor is really quiet, no loud knocks of any sort almost sounds like new. Car is still running real nice at 14 psi, so does this mean my motor is still good. Vacuum seems to be fluctuating from 10- 15, not sure if boost gauge gives out acurate reading but I will check on compression tonite.
 
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