not the oil pan gasket PLEASE HELP

[kristen]

well a few months back i replace my oil pan gasket. it took 3 days, 8-9 hours a day. so we were 99% sure that the oil was coming out of the oil pan gasket. so... just check my oil again. and i'm still losing it. where do i go from here?

[ August 24, 2005, 06:32 PM: Message edited by: kristen ]

[SpeedingFirebird]

Kristen,
I am not familiar with your particular problem, so I few dumb questions.

When you say you are "losing oil", do you mean it's leaking on the bottom of the motor, is it disappearing? If there is oil on the motor, where is it? What made you think it was the oil pan gasket?

[HBHRacing]

Exacly. See if your buring it or it's leaking. If it's leaking then you need to find the leak.

[Rabid Dog]

Hey Kris ;)

you need to get a large piece of cradboard or something to place under the car overnight or during the work day. This will show if you have a leak. If no drops are present, then you might be burning oil, which means you have other problems.

I'll assume that you DO have a visible puddle on the ground, that's why you changed the pan gasket. In that case, you may need to buy a dye tracker kit. It's a dye you place in the oil, and track down the leak with a blacklight. Or, you can power wash the motor carefully and track the leak that way. Sometimes you get blowback on the motor when a leak happens at engine temp.

These are a pain to track down. Although, either method above will do the job.

I'm afraid for some reason, it might be the rear main. But hopefully it's just the rear of one of the valve covers. (again assuming the car has a visible leak and its in the oil pan rear area)

[kristen]

well i was leaking it before. if i was burning it, what would cause it. the reason why we assumed it was the oil pan gasket was because when looked under there on the oil pan gasket there was alot of oil coming from there. i think that i might be burning it. cause my car does have a strange odor

[kristen]

ok well i just got under my car. the only places that have oil on them are bottom of the oil pan, the bottom of the mount infront of the oil pan, a little on the y pipe and right were the tranny meets the engine. now i wiped everything thing down, and ran it for a few mins, and got back under there, right where the tranny and the engine meets was the only place that had a tiny wet look to it.

also i was thinking back a few months ago i was at the track and some guy was talking to me and he said really fast that when i'm racing i have a drak smoke that comes out of my tail pipes.

now when i drive i can deff smell what smells like burning oil or rubber.

please help

[BobbyZ72]

Sorry to say and dont get mad, but sounds like youve torn the engine up. Driving it as hard as ive seen in your video may have worn it premature is my guess. And your buring your oil. My car had valve cover gaskets, rear main seal, oil pan gasket, and other stuff leaking when i bought it. Need less to say there was a puddle under it over night. What im trying to say is you have to have a large oil leak for you to be noicing oil loss between oil changes.

[BLLDOGG]

hate to ask but are you sure its oil. try dabbing a paper towel on the fluid to see if its really oil or tranny fluid. i would guess that its your rear main if it is oil and if it isnt your oil pan leaking again. did you look at the back of the motor to see if its your valve covers?


quick tip for you guys, black smoke isnt oil, its rich air/fuel mixture ;)

i would guess the black smoke is just a side effect of your nitrous and what not

[99v6cam]

The burning oil is prolly from the il getting on your y-pipe. From the way you described it, sounds like you need to replace your rear main seal.

[3.4 slow to go]

camaro_speedemon had a reallygood guide on replacing the rms. I used it when I replaced teh one on my 3800. Maybe you could convince hime on posting/hostin git somewhere.

[HBHRacing]

sounds like a rear main to me. You might consider taking it to a shop to see if they agree.

[Copperhead]

rear main...speaking from experience...or experiencing it as we speak...lol

[kristen]

ok if it is the rear main seal, how hard is it to replace it yourself? i checked out my haynes manual, so i got the directions. also while i'm in there is there any proformance mods i can do while i'm in there

[ August 25, 2005, 07:26 AM: Message edited by: kristen ]

[HBHRacing]

for the rear main the tranny needs to come out.

[kristen]

all the way out? i can't just drop it a little bit?