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Yea it's definitely leaking oil, I know it isn't burning oil as I revved it up to redline and no smoke out the tailpipe, but it;s definitely leaking at a rate I need to get it looked at. Pic below, there was some more, not a lot more but a lil bit more to the right of the cardboard that it didn't catch. Took about 30 hours for this much to build up.
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06-21-2014, 06:35 AM
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I'd start by replacing the distributor o-ring. Easy to replace and cheap! My old o-ring broke into pieces when I took it off!
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06-21-2014, 01:22 PM
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Please don't park in my driveway! If it's power steering fluid, this might be a good time to delete the power steering. If it's engine, fix the easy stuff first. Keep an eye on oil level, you might find that the leak rate is so slow that it's not worth your time to fix.
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06-21-2014, 01:47 PM
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I'm 100% sure it's oil, as the car was low on oil when I bought it, and I had to add some before I came home. The entire back of the engine is covered in oil and so is the underbelly. So yea.
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06-21-2014, 02:00 PM
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I'm 100% sure it's oil, as the car was low on oil when I bought it, and I had to add some before I came home. The entire back of the engine is covered in oil and so is the underbelly. So yea.
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Suspect the oil filter too. It is on the back of the engine. If it is not tight enough, if the gasket did not seal well because of... something, the oil will leak down the back of the engine. I solved an oil leak by removing the filter during a change and replacing it. Always run a little oil around the gasket with your finger before installing the filter.
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06-22-2014, 12:12 AM
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Suspect the oil filter too. It is on the back of the engine. If it is not tight enough, if the gasket did not seal well because of... something, the oil will leak down the back of the engine. I solved an oil leak by removing the filter during a change and replacing it. Always run a little oil around the gasket with your finger before installing the filter.
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Oh yea... I'll check that when I get home. My buddy that I carpool with gave me a gallon of purple power so it gonna use that on my engine. I'll update you guys when I get home from work on the oil filter thing.
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So I pressure washed it today using the Purple power and it worked ok I guess. Anyway, after I got home I popped the hood and noticed a fresh stream of oil coming from this spot. I'll include another picture below it of an entire engine circling the spot the pic is from but, yea.
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My guess would be distrubutor seal especially if the visible oil trail starts under the distributor which looks like it does from the photo. The crank seal is on the drivers side of the car,where the fan belts are located.
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06-22-2014, 08:25 PM
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My guess would be distrubutor seal especially if the visible oil trail starts under the distributor which looks like it does from the photo. The crank seal is on the drivers side of the car,where the fan belts are located.
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I second that. My 98 civic was leaking oil, and it would drip off of different places because it dripped off the distributor and trickled to the transmission, engine, oil pan, and even on the plastic undercarriage.
So I believe that could explain your oil leaking from different places. it's pretty easy to do, There's a couple links on youtube of it, and there are 2 seals an inner seal and an outer seal.
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06-22-2014, 09:22 PM
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I second that. My 98 civic was leaking oil, and it would drip off of different places because it dripped off the distributor and trickled to the transmission, engine, oil pan, and even on the plastic undercarriage.
So I believe that could explain your oil leaking from different places. it's pretty easy to do, There's a couple links on youtube of it, and there are 2 seals an inner seal and an outer seal.
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Thanks Old mechanic, tvbd, this is exactly the drip pattern of mine, it's completely random where it's dripping off to. If you had seen the underbelly of the car before I washed it, it was literally everywhere, EVERYWHERE.
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