Re: V8 oil leak

From: Joseph Hughes (jhughes@dpg.devry.edu)
Date: Wed Dec 03 1997 - 08:09:14 EST


On Tue, 2 Dec 1997, Bruce Aaron Hefner wrote:

> >
> > >My 1996 V8 Dakota has 25,000 miles on it and when I pulled it out of the
> > >garage yesterday, I found 2 drops of (clean) oil on the garage floor.
> > >
> > I have had similar seepage for a while now.....In fact, I now have seepage
> > at the transfer case/tranny seal.....Not dripping, just seepage...Enough to
> > stain my garage floor, but not enough to leak in parking lots....
> >
> >
> > ANyone else have this leak??
> >
> >
> >
>
> After having a vehicle that had bad seals on the tranny and thus leaked a
> quart or 2 of trans fluid a week all I gotta say is don't worry about it,
> if it is still full or almost full at every oil change then forget about
> it because it isn't bad enough to hurt anything...
>
> Bruce
>

        Bruce, I had a similar problem with my ,93 DAK but all I did to
remedy this is was to change the gaskets that the area was leaking from
and put in some high performance seal-a-gasket instead of having some
factory POS gasket on there. Hope it works.

        Joe " Mustang Killer" Hughes



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