I replaced my oil pressure sender and I still get a couple drops of oil when my car sits. I check my oil and it's never low. I'm not sure where it is comming from but it touches something hot because I can smell burnt oil. I think it's kinda weird that I have a couple drops and also smell some burnt. What would be the next most common leaky area? From somewhere there is some oil on the arm circled in green, and in the red circle there is sometimes a drop sitting on that rubber plug. Somebody said that the metering oil pump could be bad, but it doesn't look like there is oil on that but there is a lot on the oil pan. I will post a pic of that in a reply.

 

Here are a couple pics of the metering oil pump, they aren't the best...

 

that "arm" actually helps in sealing your oil pan to the motor, it's part of your motor mount, unfortunately i dont have any disassembled pictures to show you, but its commonly known to leak there, you could try snugging up the 3 bolts, maybe they loosen from the vibrations, or you could drop the pan and do a new oil pan gasket/sealant. This could be the oil you smell because its right under a very hot area so it could be cooking...especially if you have a turbo, for n/a's im not sure if it would cook there.



as for dripping around the rubber plug, anytime a rubber plug is used to seal something housing oil or whatever it will "seep" a bit around the edges, nothing major.



kevin.

 

[quote name='teknics' date='Apr 25 2005, 11:30 AM']that "arm" actually helps in sealing your oil pan to the motor, it's part of your motor mount, unfortunately i dont have any disassembled pictures to show you, but its commonly known to leak there, you could try snugging up the 3 bolts, maybe they loosen from the vibrations, or you could drop the pan and do a new oil pan gasket/sealant. This could be the oil you smell because its right under a very hot area so it could be cooking...especially if you have a turbo, for n/a's im not sure if it would cook there.



as for dripping around the rubber plug, anytime a rubber plug is used to seal something housing oil or whatever it will "seep" a bit around the edges, nothing major.



kevin.


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Yeah, I think I might replace the gasket for the oil pan and also put some stainless steel braided oil cooler lines in because I saw a drop sitting at the bottom of one. In replacing the oil pan gasket you have to put a jack under the tranny to hold everything up? Or is that not necessary?



thanks,

Kevin

 

[quote name='porsche4786' date='Apr 25 2005, 12:07 PM']Yeah, I think I might replace the gasket for the oil pan and also put some stainless steel braided oil cooler lines in because I saw a drop sitting at the bottom of one. In replacing the oil pan gasket you have to put a jack under the tranny to hold everything up? Or is that not necessary?



thanks,

Kevin


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If you just replace the gasket, the pan will start to leak again in a few thousand miles. Go to the mazda dealership, buy a tube of the expensive grey mazda rtv and reseal the pan ONLY using liberal amounts of rtv. It'll be dry as a bone until you sell the car.

 

j9: so I got a question for you then, im going to be running an oil pan baffle plate between my oil pan and motor...should i just use the RTV sealant on everything instea of 2 oil pan gaskets? Ive been meaning to ask this and this figured to be as good a time as any.



basically ditch the gasket and use RTV?



think i could use just black silicone RTV, or is the mazda stuff special?



I do have some white VW Oil Pan RTV Sealant lying around...would that work (its the only thing that seals te oil pan on the golf, there is no gasket)



kevin.

 

[quote name='teknics' date='Apr 26 2005, 11:23 AM']j9: so I got a question for you then, im going to be running an oil pan baffle plate between my oil pan and motor...should i just use the RTV sealant on everything instea of 2 oil pan gaskets? Ive been meaning to ask this and this figured to be as good a time as any.



basically ditch the gasket and use RTV?



think i could use just black silicone RTV, or is the mazda stuff special?



I do have some white VW Oil Pan RTV Sealant lying around...would that work (its the only thing that seals te oil pan on the golf, there is no gasket)



kevin.


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The baffle plate will leak regardless. Your only hope is to use alot of RTV. I can't speak for other brands of RTV. I only use the Mazda stuff, because its the type of job you only want to do ONCE!

I don't see any big deal using the VW stuff though. If the factory uses it, it should be good enough....

 

[quote name='cymfc3s' date='Apr 26 2005, 08:19 PM']The baffle plate will leak regardless. Your only hope is to use alot of RTV. I can't speak for other brands of RTV. I only use the Mazda stuff, because its the type of job you only want to do ONCE!

I don't see any big deal using the VW stuff though. If the factory uses it, it should be good enough....


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Is it really that much of a pain to take your oil pan off?

 

its not a pain, but theres only so many times you wanna do that until it gets annoyingly tedious. nevermind the fact that who wants there freshly rebuilt motor to be leaking oil?



kevin.

 

[quote name='teknics' date='Apr 27 2005, 02:48 PM']its not a pain, but theres only so many times you wanna do that until it gets annoyingly tedious. nevermind the fact that who wants there freshly rebuilt motor to be leaking oil?



kevin.


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Bingo.