oil loss 90 200tqa

[Ron Wainwright]

  I got a chance to crawl under the car after work
today and cleaned the area well with brake clean
 let the car idle in the driveway for a while and
didn't notice any oil loss so I went for a ride around
the block
 got back under the car and noticed oil on the oil
temp gauge sender and all so noticed oil commin from
above the sender where the sender is screwed into the
housing (I guess you can call it) well
 thats bolted to the front underside of the block
there looks to be a paper gasket in between could that
paper gasket be causing the leak?
 it's just hard to tell since the oil loss is rite
near the alternator and the main pulley's there's
allot of wind generated down there so the oil looks to
be blown around it's hard to pinpoint
 so it could be
1) sender leaking
2) crank seal leaking
3) gasket between oil temp sender housing and block or
is that just the crank seal leaking?
any additional help would be great
Thanks
Ron



--- Brett Dikeman <brett at cloud9.net> wrote:
> At 3:54 PM -0700 4/7/02, Ron Wainwright wrote:
> >   Listers,
> >
> >   My girlfriend told me a few days ago about
> hearing
> >the lifters tickin
> >so I took a look at the oil and found that it all
> most
> >didn't register on the dip stick
>
> heh, and I thought it was just my car that changed
> tunes when it was
> a little low :-)
>
> >so I crawled under the car to look and see if the
> >filter was tight and the oil plug was tight and
> they
> >were but there's oil all over the front underside
> of
> >the engine near the main crank, belts, Alt,
> >  seen a black/brown wire that is screwed into the
> >underside of the engine near the alt what is it?
> allot
> >of oil was near it could that leak oil?
> >I can't see any other place oil might have come
> from.
> >  I just bought the car a few months back and did
> the
> >first oil and filter change on it about a month ago
> >there usta be a Valvoline filter and probably
> >Valvoilne oil as well I used a Mann filter and
> 15/50w
> >Mobil synthetic.
>
> Hmm, well, I'd say clean up the area as best you
> can, and then
> reinspect frequently to see if you can catch it in
> the act(and see if
> it's still leaking.)   The first thing that came to
> mind from your
> description was the crank seal, which would really
> suck :(  Mine is
> starting to leak a little there too, but it's due
> for a t-belt change
> very shortly, thank god.
>
> Oh..actually, one thing, BTDT myself on this...check
> both connections
> for the oil cooler at the engine block.  One of the
> fittings had
> worked itself almost completely loose.  I tightened
> it as best I
> could by hand, and the leak stopped; still haven't
> figured out how to
> get in there to tighten it up properly.  Only reason
> I noticed it was
> because I went to hang a shop light on one of the
> cooler lines and it
> moved(!)
>
> BTW, after you get the leak straightened out and get
> to the next oil
> change, I'd suggest running 10w30.  You'll see a
> slight increase in
> mileage etc...and the lighter weight will be better
> for you out there
> in the western end of the state, to boot.  I run
> 10w30 pretty much
> all the time now...it's plenty, given our water
> cooled turbos and the
> synthetic oil.
>
> HTH!
>
> Brett
> --
> ----
> "They that give up essential liberty to obtain
> temporary
> safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Ben
> Franklin
> http://www.users.cloud9.net/~brett/


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