Unusual Driver side oil leak (pic)

f8lmach · Aug 20, 2012

well, I was doing a 2-4th gear pull, it spins in 2nd and mid-3rd i can get it to hook and when it did, a huge cloud of white smoke came from the rear of the car. It drive perfectly fine though, could never tell anything happened. I get home and look under and see the driver side sprayed with oil. i mean the header, motor mount, steering shaft, K-member. Something def sprayed oil. im sure its not the valvecover gasket and the oil pan gasket isnt gonna shoot oil upward. and pretty sure its not the dipstick O-ring.

Could the oil cooler actually spray oil out somehow?

car is pretty much a 03-04 cobra just in case.

heres what it looked like when i got under it:

1998gt4valveSwap · Aug 20, 2012

pcv system clogged? did you just change the oil? if you did make sure you didnt pinch the filter gasket, and/or double ring it. (old gasket still on including new one). thats only thing i can think of. thats kinda strange.

swetrid · Aug 20, 2012

Oil filter housing gaskets are prone to leakage. I would hose it down a look for a leak there.

Imajeenyas608 · Aug 20, 2012

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f8lmach · Aug 20, 2012

yea. i check the oil filter and it was good. it is strange because only thing that could spray oil like this is the dipstick O-ring or the oil cooler. but when you look at the header, the back of the tubes where the dipstick is doesnt have oil on it. and the oil cooler itself wasnt covered in oil.

f8lmach · Aug 21, 2012

its clean around that area. theres no oil on the block itself.

massacre · Aug 21, 2012

Could it be P/S fluid?

-just a long shot lol

f8lmach · Aug 21, 2012

I thought that for a minute also. But its 100% oil that sprayed and the P/S res. is pretty full. The hose that goes to the pump is pretty close to the header though.

Unusual Driver side oil leak (pic)

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