oil leak

  1. W

    Please help - Oil leaking into bell housing

    I have a 99 3.8 in an off road car. I just rebuilt it. The first trip out it is leaking oil from the bell housing. I pulled the motor, flywheel and adapter plate. I was expecting to see oil behind the flywheel. But not really. The clutch pressure plate and bell housing are covered in tons of...
  2. opihinalu

    Is this oil in my radiator?

    Car overheated yesterday and I opened up the radiator a few minutes ago and found brown sludge. Is this oil? If so whats wrong? Cracked head gasket?
  3. Lawdawg86

    Harmonic balancer scoring behind main seal

    I will say in all the years of being ASE certified I’ve never in my life seen a goofy harmonic balancer as my 2000 3.8 has. It had a massive oil leak around the main seal and timing cover area so I took it apart and found what is either scoring grooves or I’m just going nuts over nothing. The...
  4. W

    1991 supercharged 5.0 oil breather leaking/smoking

    Recently picked up a 1991 supercharged Fox Body. Noticed smoke coming from under the hood on the passenger side and looks like oil is leaking out of the valve/oil breather and dripping on the headers. The breather was also smoking a bit. From the research I've done the PCV valve should be...
  5. R

    94 Mustang V6 Oil Leak!

    Hello, Yesterday I noticed a puddle of oil under the car after it had been running for about a minute or so. It was about 8 inches in diameter. When the car is not running, it does not leak. I crawled under and took a look at it, and it looks like it is coming from the top of the oil filter...
  6. cmerk27

    Engine Very Strange Coolant Leak (checked All The Basics) And Other Problems

    1998 Mustang GT. So I have a coolant leak. I recently changed the timing cover gasket and that fixed my oil leak problem and everything was fine for a couple days but now I have a coolant leak. At first the coolant was leaking slowly out and I would need to replace it every other day and then it...
  7. chapters707

    Engine Carbon Or Oil Deposits On Block?

    Hello all, I am in the midst of replacing my 4.6 motor on my 96 with a new one I purchased online. (The new one isn't off a '96, it was manufactured in '99 and doesn't have pi heads so I'm thinking it might be off an explorer or something.)I have the old one pulled and am preparing the new one...