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Help finding oil leak


stubbs

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Waiting for the result like everyone else!

 

Also back to contemplating spending $300 next month on oil cooler lines and coating them, this stuff reminds me of stuff that can go wrong 😂

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If you have a Mityvac or similar vacuum pump (I use mine on brake fluid changes) that also works to pull oil out of the sump.  This past winter I used it to pull the power steering fluid out of the reservoir on my truck - works great.  Look on Amazon for some silicone tubing - it's far more flexible and does not hold a shape like the vinyl tubing that is more typically available. 

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my syringe was too small to suck enough volume through the tubing I had, so I just pulled the drain plug for a few seconds to get the level down to where it should be. Didn't leak after a 15 mile ride yesterday even overfilled, so I'm hoping it'll stay tight and dry at the right level now. I did run it particularly hard on the day it wound up leaking in the garage, so maybe hitting the rev limiter with the sump too full is what did it. 

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Still dry and clean. Chalking it up to a learning experience -- don't overfill oil (which I never did) and drain excess ASAP (which I didn't), fortunately with little consequence beyond making me get the front of this engine cleaner than it's been in the past decade. 🙂 

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