theseventhsun

I have a 96 civic dx with a d16y7 leaking motor oil into the driver side lca, alternator, and driver side half shaft cv joint. It has been there since I got my car, and I already fixed a few other leaks (valve cover gasket, spark plug tube gasket, oil pan, and oil filter). Recently, within the past week, the main leak has gotten much worse. It only leaks when the engine is running or has been running recently, so I'm assuming it is a moving part or gasket that is bad, and I'm assuming front crank seal or oil pump but I'm not sure, and I'm hoping it's not oil pump because those are about 90 dollars on rockauto with shipping. Does anyone have information on what it could be, and the cheapest way to fix it?

Ohmega

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Lol

Either your cam or crank seal on the timing belt side of your engine. While in there, might as well replace the water pump, tensioner, and timing belt.

hondur

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Don't buy a rock auto oil pump, honda OEM isn't only $114. That's not something you wanna trust the lower-quality-control-standards of aftermarket parts companies on.

Did you check if the oil is coming out of the bottom of the timing cover? There's a lil drain hole in the bottom, if that's where it's coming from then it's prolly the crank seal or the cam seal. Under this circumstance, you're deff gonna need a new timing belt since oil will hurt the timing belt.

You should probably buy timing belt, tensioner, water pump, timing belt, front cam and front crank seal.

theseventhsun

Thanks guys

I'm thinking that this is pretty much a good excuse to swap in a b series. This motor was neglected for a pretty long time, and ran without oil for a good couple of years. Things have started to break because of the neglect, or broke a long time ago and were never fixed, so much that it would probably cost a lot more to get this motor in operating condition than to swap another one in.