oil question
- Thread starter 90bronconate
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The best solution is to fix the leak. Temps up in Phx can still get chilly in the morning, and while you can probably get away with 20W-50, running 10-40 is better this time of year.
Look at it this way - if you need 20-50 now, what will you do in the summer when 20-50 flows like 10-40 now?
Good luck.
Look at it this way - if you need 20-50 now, what will you do in the summer when 20-50 flows like 10-40 now?
Good luck.
poneypower89
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Yes, thats exactly what he means...90bronconate said:
Anyways, only suggestion I can give is to buy really really cheap oil. No sense in getting the good stuff if you just gonna drip it back onto the driveway. Take the car to a tranny shop and have a new rear main put in as soon as u can. Tranny shops can do it much quicker and easier than we can on jack stands. Plus, its a minor fix for them so the price shouldnt be too steep.
My father is a tranny tech, dropped my car off at his shop... new rear main was done when I got back the next hour.
Yes, 10W-40 right now probably flows about like 20W-50 does in 115*F ambient temps (I am down in Tucson).90bronconate said:
So if 10-40 is too thin now, 20-50 will be too thin in the summer time (reasoning to fix the leak rather than try and get the oil thick enough to not seep past the seal).
I was figuring that you might be changing the oil in 3 months or so, before it gets too hot (March-May is when I switch cars over to thicker oil normally). So you would have the 20W-50 for summer, but not be running it in the winter, when lows (here atleast) still hit freezing.
Good luck.
Before replacing the rear main seal,make sure your PCV system is not plugged up.Take out the PCV valve and the rubber grommet the valve sits in the fish out the breather element screen and see if it`s plugged up.
Clean the breather element in acetone or buy a new one.
If that screen is plugged up,it can cause a perfectly good rear main seal to leak due to excessive crankcase pressure buildup.
Clean the breather element in acetone or buy a new one.
If that screen is plugged up,it can cause a perfectly good rear main seal to leak due to excessive crankcase pressure buildup.
Roland69
Sergeant Tangnet
Dont overlook 8950HO's wise advice. It would definately suck to do that work to have this issue hang around.
When the crankcase pressure/vapors cant make it out of the PCV line, they tend to try and find the next path of least resistance, which is often the crank seals.
Point was to really go over what he mentioned - it might save you some wrenching.
Good luck.
When the crankcase pressure/vapors cant make it out of the PCV line, they tend to try and find the next path of least resistance, which is often the crank seals.
Point was to really go over what he mentioned - it might save you some wrenching.
Good luck.
