More engine problems..

**CapnBreakAlot** · 05-21-2013

So randomly my car has started leaking what appears to be oil.. It's never leaked a drop of anything the past two months i've owned it until just the other day. I got under the car today to change the oil and noticed the leaking was coming from around the trans pan area. The pan wasn't leaking but something above it had soaked everything all the way down and it was dripping now. The whole front axle appeared to be covered and dripping with what appears to be oil. So I changed the oil and put the car back down and backed it out and looked under the hood and noticed under throttle a tiny bit of smoke appears from the rear-passenger side of the engine. Just a little smoke and only under throttle.. I also heard a lot of light rattling which I thought was just a noisy pulley since I had just changed the coupler in my supercharger but now i'm not so sure.. Any ideas? Please help..

**jlgp2007nc** · 05-21-2013

Valve cover gaskets? That can leak all the way down the back of the engine. Can cause smoke with oil leaking onto the hot exhaust.

Only while revving? More exhaust flow whole revving means hotter exhaust so more smoke.

That's my guess.

**CapnBreakAlot** · 05-21-2013

Thats what I thought.. My truck did that at one time. I just thought it was strange that one day it was fine and the next, bam.

**BillBoost37** · 05-22-2013

Run your finger under the edge of the valve cover edge. Is is leaking?

I know.. it seems too simple of a test to diagnose it, life doesn't have to be difficult.

**SlowNA06** · 05-22-2013

You can also use a paper towel if you're not an uncivilized animal.

**BillBoost37** · 05-22-2013

Originally Posted by SlowNA06

You can also use a paper towel if you're not an uncivilized animal.

It wasn't my finger that was gonna get oily and nasty..lol

**Scottydoggs** · 05-22-2013

if the pass side axle was wet with oil, im voting oil pressure sensor blew out, its in the oil filter housing.

**addzradd** · 05-22-2013

If not maybe the high pressure PS line with a pinhole.

**J GTP** · 05-22-2013

Originally Posted by Scottydoggs

if the pass side axle was wet with oil, im voting oil pressure sensor blew out, its in the oil filter housing.

This. I've had that thing blow about once a year since I've had my car.

**BillBoost37** · 05-22-2013

Originally Posted by J GTP

This. I've had that thing blow about once a year since I've had my car.

Are you and Dogger related?

**Scottydoggs** · 05-22-2013

i blew 3 of them, i now have a brass plug in the hole, im not wasting another 12 bucks on a new one.

**CapnBreakAlot** · 05-22-2013

I got it checked out by the shop I bought the car from. He said it was just leaking from the oil pan and its a normal thing.. It was all clean up by the oil filter. I checked up by the valve cover and it didn't really seem oily but more just dirty.. He said he didn't think it was the valve cover and was pretty sure it was just the pan leaking a little. He drives a grand prix gt and says his leaks a little from the same place too. Sound right?