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NEED HELP - oil leaks


nativeer3
02-23-2008, 08:30 PM
hello im pretty new here and i have been looking around for some help with my 84 F-250 with a 351 cleveland in it. Just bought the trucke last week and it was leaking from the oil pan gasket . So then i went ahead and changed out the gasket . So now im still leaking oil , but now coming out at bottom of fly wheel and in front of the engine . My gut instinct is telling me that its my front and rear main seals . Anybody have any ideas ?? Oh yeah thanks for having me on this site.

FNA
02-26-2008, 02:23 PM
"it was leaking from the oil pan gasket . So then i went ahead and changed out the gasket . So now im still leaking oil , but now coming out at bottom of fly wheel and in front of the engine . My gut instinct is telling me that its my front and rear main seals . Anybody have any ideas ??"

It never sounds good when you write, "It was doing this, I worked on it and now it's doing that."

'Cause if it wasn't doing "that" before you worked on it, why do you think it might be doing "that" now?

My idea is that gut instincts should only be relied upon after all ordinary diagnostics have been completed with no result.

Clean it up, find out where your leak is, repair it

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