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Oil Seals keep breaking?

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project1g

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Nov 2, 2007
Jacksonville, North Carolina
My oil seals keep breaking for some reason, I took my car to a friend and had him fix an oil leak because I've been busy as hell tring to get my enlistment papers and working so I can get a 95 GSX and he said after he put everything back together he started it and it started smoking and he told me it was the oil seals...
Any ideas?
 
Oil seals for what? Need to be more specific.

Also, how much oil in the car, how were the seals installed?
 
Crap, I never did even ask that. It had low oil but not too low, I mean I still had regular oil pressure and temp and every thing maybe a little less than half a quart low, I know he took my oil pan off to change the part out. It seemed like he was saying it was getting to much pressure and it was causing my seals to break. My first guess was PCV valve getting clogged up or something... I don't know, I've been feeding this car too much money on small repairs... I might just buy a new one, I'll get some details for you guys tomorrow, just if you could think of some things that it MAY be even with the little details I gave you guys that'd help
 
I think you need to slow down and ingest what's wrong with the car. I think we've all been there (throwing tons of $ into the car, that is) and it's sometimes best to step back and start SLOW and start SIMPLE.

Where does the car leak oil?
Is it visible or are you just guessing that you're losing oil because it needs to be filled onces in a while?
 
Problem solved... The oil leak was already fixed, it was just upon putting everything back in order they seemed to have bent my intake valves which was causing pressure back down into the crap that they just got replacing. The oil leak was comming from around my oil pan, I checked to make sure the filter was on right and thats when I turned it over to my friend... Well we fixed it and at the expense of two new intake valves. Hurray mo money..
Thanks
Dylan
 
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