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07-04-2009, 02:31 PM
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1995 SSEi Oil leaking
What are the usual suspects for oil leakage in the 3800 supercharged engine? Any help appreciated. Application is 1995 Bonne SSEi, 100k miles.
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#2
07-04-2009, 10:06 PM
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Valve covers, oil senders, Cooler lines to the front of the car, oil pan, oil sending unit.
Occaisionally you'll find a supercharger seal leaking but you'll know that in short order when it starts hammering. MIke
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07-05-2009, 12:53 AM
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I'm at over 110,000 miles now, and at just around 100,000 miles to clean up all engine oil leaks I had to do: valve cover gaskets, oil pan gasket, oil level sensor sending unit, rear main seal (yes, this means dropping the transaxle)
for engine coolant leaks I had to do: water pump, lower intake manifold gaskets (which had already been done at least once before at I think around 50k miles) for transaxle fluid leaks I had to do: one of the transaxle-to-cooler lines (probably time for me to check to other line) and transaxle pan gasket. Oh, and re-and-re supercharger. At least, without going thru all my receipts, that's what I recall off the top of my head. Fortunately, all paid for by the extended warrenty |
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07-05-2009, 08:07 PM
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I had 180,000 before I got rid of it. AT 130,000 I replaced the valve cover, intake, front cover, supercharger gaskets, and oil cooler lines and didnt have a drop of oil under it when I got rid of it. The engine still ran like new at 180k. Other than that and a harmonic balancer(expensive) with routine maint it was an awesome car. I miss it.
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