Just a suggestion but you might want to try getting an "oil dye kit" to verify where it's leaking before tearing it apart again. Kit comes with dye to put in your oil as well as special flashlight and glasses, pretty sure you can get them for around $50.
My buddy had one that I used to confirm an oil leak on my daughters car, worked great.
My buddy had one that I used to confirm an oil leak on my daughters car, worked great.
Assuming the shaft surface is acceptably smooth, no gouges or nicks (be aware some shafts have angled indents visible aimed at constantly pushing oil back towards the inside of the engine), a PTFE (Teflon) seal has superior life qualities over rubber, likely costs more, but suffers from one serious drawback: Teflon seal lips actually CUT into the shaft surface if even a slight amount of water or moisture is present.
In our Development Lab, we actually saw the grooves Teflon lips cut in shafts when moisture was present. OTOH, Teflon seals proved to give the longest overall life over all others: Silicone Rubber, Poly-Acrylic, and Buna-N. imp
Sorry guys had a funeral to deal with. Anyway I figured out the car only starts dripping once oil is warmed up. Not a single drop but once it hits normal temps it starts dripping. It’s new oil. I used maxlife 10w30. Should I be using something else? Also my sleeve came in and I have the Teflon seal Incase I need to bring it all back out again.
Also what would stop oil from just seeping between the sleeve and shaft? I just wanna be 100% sure I install the sleeve and new Teflon rms the right way. Should I lube anything up or just do it all dry? Must be minor if it don’t do it for first 5-10 mine of running then soon as oil gets good and warm it starts seeping
I cannot talk definitely about the sleeve, because I don't know enough about it. Is it driven onto the shaft tightly, or slips on loosely. If loose, and not sealed nothing will stop oil from finding it's way out. My main problem is that I've never encountered one of these "sleeve" seal fixes, and still think of it as a "jury-rig". imp
Ok done the sleeve and put on the felpro ptfe seal. And exact same thing happened. Ran it in driveway to warm up three times. On the forth time when ready to go for test drive the drip returns???? Should I give another shot at RMS with the cheaper Fel-Pro rubber gasket and leave the sleeve on since it’s already done? I also removed all three screws located behind flywheel above rms and put rtv on them.