crankshaft position sensor oil drip - Fuel Economy, Hypermiling, EcoModding News and Forum

TheSilverBullet · 09-29-2009, 09:51 PM

i have a severe oil drip from the crankshaft position sensor seal. top of the oil pan around there. flows down from the wire and then drips.
anyone fix this before ? easy fix or not ?
1.3L g13bb

NiHaoMike · 09-29-2009, 09:58 PM

Search online. If it's a common problem, there probably will be a guide for how to fix it.

cfg83 · 09-30-2009, 02:55 AM

TheSilverBullet -

Welcome to EM! There are a lot of Metro/Firefly owners here, so someone may chime in.

NiHaoMike also has good advice. For drivetrain specific stuff, I go to people who know lots of stuff about my drivetrain. For me that's saturnfans.com .

CarloSW2

TheSilverBullet · 10-16-2009, 02:01 AM

Ive looked in my service manual for the Crankshaft Oil Seal and Housing replacement, to replace the seal requires removal of the transmission/transaxle, the pressure plate, flywheel and spacer. then requires removing the oil pan. by that time to get there, i may as well have an engine rebuild.

RobertSmalls · 10-16-2009, 08:20 AM

Sounds like a job for form-a-gasket.\

Off topic, are you actually pulling 15mpg in your Firefly, or is that 15 km/L?

TheSilverBullet · 11-12-2009, 01:21 AM

Fixed my oil drip