Hello everyone,

Could you please help me again with this leak issue. Got the engine cleaned and have now determined that oil is leaking from a place in front near top. Looks like a can of sorts and has a black rubber top that has a small arrow on it. It is not where I put oil (the oil cap), but in front of that slightly to the left. Someone told me this could be where the oil filter is. (All the oil filters I've seen are on the bottom of the engine).

Anyway, oil is dripping from there. I suspect this is my oil leak. Could someone please give advice on how I should resolve this.

Thank you.

 

That IS the oil filter and it may not be seated all the way or the O-rings were not installed properly at the last oil change. There are 4 or 5 O-rings (cant remember right now). The filter has a torque spec written on it. Who did your last oil change? Dont go there again....

 

theres four o-rings and it says 25 Nm torque. Question though i just did an oil change myself and noticed my new filter wasnt as great of quality as the one that came out? the old one had nice black plastic ends on it. My fram one no ends just looked like the glue that holds the paper together and came with new o-rings for 28 bucks.
Also i looked at my fuses cause i want to get rid of the esp and traction control but mine say 17,18 are spares? mines an 04 not sure if its a limited or other type? Any help would be great.

 

Here is a link for oil filters.
https://www.crossfireforum.org/forum...il-filter.html

Those should be the proper fuses, you can find info here.https://www.crossfireforum.org/forum...ollection.html

 

All,

It was the oil filter and even better, one of those O rings was missing (the biggest one). I purchased a new oil filter and installed it with all new O rings. My first Crossfire repair . Cannot believe the folks that changed my oil did this to me. Last time I use them!

Thanks to everyone for helping me with this. I was thinking Ching! Ching!, time to spend big bucks but I got out of it by just spending $13.00. Yeah!

 

Excellent, and welcome to the forum.

Since your car has been leaking oil for a while, make sure to check the oil level, and top it up as needed.

BC.

 

Want to thank all of you again for saving us lots of time, headaches and money!

Long story short, my car was stolen, they ran it hard...when recovered it was out of oil, out of gas, out of water, and the battery was dead. Fortunately, not a mark on the car anywhere. We had it checked out and of course, the dealer said all was in good shape. WRONG!!! Turns out they didn't place the orings properly, we had oil leaking everywhere. Told my husband to forget the dealer, looked here and found the answer. My husband fixed the orings and...tadah! no more oil leak. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!

Another problem we discovered is the reservoir tank for the coolant. I guess when it went dry and became hot the stem on the tank cracked. My husband fixed it with JBWeld, it's holding just fine. However, the low coolant lite keeps coming on, even though the temperature remains just fine. Any ideas? I'll check the other threads for that.

Finally, the seats won't move. Hopefully it's just a fuse. I'll look for that under electrical.

 

Is the coolant level in the tank sufficient? Once you get all the issues resolved, maybe you can join us at a Central Texas Crossfires GTG.

 

The coolant level is fine. After reading more posts at different threads on coolant sensor light staying on my husband discovered that the radiator fan fuse was burnt. When he took the other 50 amp fuse (traction fuse) and placed it in the radiator fuse position, the low coolant light went off. But when he started the car again, that fuse blew. So now we have to buy 2 50 amp fuses. He also cleaned the fuses for the electric seats, replaced them and they worked temporarily, then stopped again. Any ideas? I know this probably needs to go in a different thread.

 

I got to ask you how they stole it, used the keys or ....?

 

Didn't know this, but they said that it's not that difficult to get keys that will work. It was stolen outside a restaurant. That was a horrible nightmare. Since then I've asked around and found out that car thieves are just about invincible! Apparently if they want it they can get it. And of course, no one pays attention to alarms anymore, especially in public places.

We were so very lucky that a concerned citizen called us saying it was left in the back of his apartment complex, had been there for several days and that the police wouldn't do anything about it when he called them. He found my number on a folder in the back, and called me directly. We had made police reports, but that's about the extent of their involvement. Soon as I got the call, my husband and I went and brought it home. The rest is history. Funny thing is when we called the cops and said we'd found it, they said to be sure not to move it.
Hahahaha! It was in the worst part of town! Like we'd really leave it there. No way was I going to risk someone else taking it. The battery was dead and it was out of gas, oil, water, but we were prepared for that. About 2 weeks later they sent an officer out to the house, he walked around it, said it looked good, and he removed it from the stolen car list.

 

In most cases, you must first know what is leaking and next remove the gasket sealant or older and repair or replace that part. It is possible to replace the rear main bearing seal without removing the engine in a vehicle with rear wheel drive. if you wan try some of the Texas shops they can definitely help you out.

 

Let us help you out, it's the same way you came in, bye.