oil leak?

[headpeace]

hey, Im a newbie here, anyway I took my path to get a new timing belt theother day and dude said I was leaking oil from the gasket,. any idea which gasket this might be?

[88pathoffroad]

There are probably 100 different gaskets on an engine that can leak oil. Ask the guy to be more specific.

[headpeace]

Thanx for the reply, it doesnt seem to be losin any oil so I quess Ill just keep an eye on it

[Seattle_Al]

The most common oil leak to spot while changing the timing belt on a VG30E is at the passenger side camshaft seal. If that's the one your mechanic saw, and he didn't replace it while he was in there, you need to find yourself a new mechanic...

 

Another common leak is from the oil pressure sender...

 

-al

[headpeace]

thanx seattle, Im gonna watch it, a good note being he thought there was an oil leak when he popped the hood , not after the job; but hell, its got 156+ on it, there's gonna be some oil in there

 

L8

 

A

[Slick]

Check the valve covers too for leakage.....

[madhatter_xe]

The most common oil leak to spot while changing the timing belt on a VG30E is at the passenger side camshaft seal

 

interesting point, i just did my t-belt, H20 pump, thrmstt and cam-seals and the passenger side seal had a small leak... i wonder why the passenger side seal would be more prone to leak??

 

 

-D

[88pathoffroad]

Mine's got 144,500 miles and doesn't leak a bit.

[k9sar]

a good oil leak just means that you never have to change it.

[madhatter_xe]

haha that proved true with my old Ranger....didn't do one oil change on it in like 3 years...ran great!

 

theres a good chance that cam-seal had about 256,000KM on it...so it was overdue, the leak was still pretty insignificant..so hopefully the new one'll hold up for that long too