What about this oil leak.

[kaplang]

Let me start off by saying that I think it is the flywheel seal.

1984. 75,000 miles on second engine. I don't drive it much lately. Less then 2,000 miles a year. Mostly stays parked in my driveway in Southern Ca. After driving it drips about 1/2 teaspoon of oil and then stops. I think it's the flywheel seal. If it is I know the best thing to do is have it replaced. What I actually want to know here is there any oil adaptive that will swell up the seal and stop the leak or would I just be wasting time and money?

Thanks

[Ahwahnee]

[dhaavers]

What makes you think it's the flywheel seal? Just checking...
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[Terry Kay]

[quote="dhaavers"]What makes you think it's the flywheel seal? Just checking...[/quote]

X 2, 3 & 4.
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[kaplang]

[danfromsyr]

put on your crappy clothes, a bandana on your head and grab a sheet of cardboard.
lay it down under there and shimmy underneath with a flashlight.

find out the wet tracing and report back to us exactly where (pics are handy)
leave the cardboard under it if it leaks like mine does at the moment.. (valve cover gasket on order)
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[dhaavers]

Based on your guess I'll make an assumption that the drip is from the bell housing...???
(These layers of intrigue could get interesting, but I'll try...)

Whatever it is, it might respond temporarily to some magic-in-a-bottle.

That stuff probably just thickens the oil and there might be other unintended
consequences, (More work for the oil pump? Less/slower oil through the filter?
Doesn't taste as good?) ...so let's agree that it's TEMPORARY.

There's still something to fix under there and if it's bugging you, you should get
to it sometime soon. From the sound of it, that's really not a LOT of oil to lose
from one of these rigs. A lot of guys just live with it and put their time and money
into buying more oil. Personally, I HATE oil leaks... ...so here's my $0.02:

Yeah - if it's motor oil, it MIGHT be the flywheel seal. It could also be a bad galley
plug, or something completely different. If it's gear oil (tell the difference by the
sulfur smell) it could be the input shaft seal, possibly in combination with a bad
oil slinger or perhaps a blocked tranny vent. Hard to tell from here...

Feel free to search on any of these topics, but eventually you're gonna have to
step away from the computer and deal with it, one way or another.

Keep us posted - we're all waiting for a happy ending!

- Dave
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[Ahwahnee]