So I went to my dads today and soon as I opened my door I smelt oil, so I'm like wtf. Open the hood and see and smell burnt oil. So I look under the car and it's dripping underneath. I start the car run it for a sec kinda lightly reving it to get the pressure up and look under and it's a nice steady litte stream of oil pouring onto the ground. I can't see where abouts it's coming from though there's to much **** in the way. About all I can see is that it looks as though it's coming from something above the filter(no it's not the filter that much I can see) and ends up running off the side of the oil pan. Anybody had this happen before and what was the problem? It leaked out almost all the oil onto the ground. If I want to take it to a shop I'll either have to fill it right up with oil and drive it there or get it towed I guess. I have an oil pressure gauge and the pressue wasn't dropping either it stayed about normal.

 

sounds like its coming from the oil sending unit

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Tegster &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">It leaked out almost all the oil onto the ground.</TD></TR></TABLE>
you must be new to cars or something. running w/ a leak that bad is dangerous to the engine. hope you don't spin a bearing any time soon

 

I didn't realize it was leaking until I got to my dads. Secondly the car stayed there for the night, undriven. I got the problem fixed, took me 4hrs but I got it fixed.

 

Could also be coming fron the oil cooler thing that you oil filter sits on. Only saying this cause my b16 was doing it. Kind of stops when the car is off, but dumps out when it is running. Pull your oil filter, pull the big as bolt and take the thing off and make sure you still have the o ring in there. If so, Filt the groove up with rvt and put the o ring back on. The rvt will hold the ring in place. and that will fix the leak. Assuming it is coming from there.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by efcivic757 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Could also be coming fron the oil cooler thing that you oil filter sits on. Only saying this cause my b16 was doing it. Kind of stops when the car is off, but dumps out when it is running. Pull your oil filter, pull the big as bolt and take the thing off and make sure you still have the o ring in there. If so, Filt the groove up with rvt and put the o ring back on. The rvt will hold the ring in place. and that will fix the leak. Assuming it is coming from there.</TD></TR></TABLE>
As I said above i got it fixed already. The guy that owned it before me put in a/f and oil pressure gauges, he added a brass T fitting where the oil line or sending unit goes into the block. Well the dumbshits over tightened it, so when I saw where it was leaking I went to touch it to see if it was loose with my finger and it broke off in the block . So I ended up getting an easy out, new fittings and got it all back together. Problem fixed.