oil loss 90 200tqa

[Mihnea Cotet]

At 17:08 8/04/2002 -0700, Ron Wainwright wrote:
>   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

Ron,

The oil temp sender housing is also called the oil pump IIRC :-) The oil
pump gasket can leak but the front crank seal can do it too, as well as the
sender gasket (there should be some sort of)

Just my 0.02,

Mihnea