Is this a rear main seal leak?
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Is this a rear main seal leak?
I've done a search and I'm pretty sure this is a rear main seal problem. Seems people have tried Auto-RX and that slowed or stop it with some owners.
Questions I couldn't find the answer to: Could having your timing belt changed cause this?
Had my T-belt, P/S belt, water pump and radiator flushed a bit more then 3 months ago and since driven under 4K miles.
Before I had the T-belt, water pump...etc.. done, the car was tight as a drum. Any chance the dealership forgot to tighten something?
Questions I couldn't find the answer to: Could having your timing belt changed cause this?
Had my T-belt, P/S belt, water pump and radiator flushed a bit more then 3 months ago and since driven under 4K miles.
Before I had the T-belt, water pump...etc.. done, the car was tight as a drum. Any chance the dealership forgot to tighten something?
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Can't help you out just want to comment how friendly california is to the underside of an automobile. I'm in canada and the salt the use on roads usually causes some corrosion . Your ride is sooo clean.....except for the oil leak.
Here we spray oil all over the underside so that wouldn't bother me at all
Here we spray oil all over the underside so that wouldn't bother me at all
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Thanks for the reply. However the leaking fluid isn't reddish. Its looks just like motor oil that would drain during an oil change. I guess the lightning and underside made it look that way.
What do think? Expensive job?
What do think? Expensive job?
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Can't help you out just want to comment how friendly california is to the underside of an automobile. I'm in canada and the salt the use on roads usually causes some corrosion . Your ride is sooo clean.....except for the oil leak.
Here we spray oil all over the underside so that wouldn't bother me at all
Here we spray oil all over the underside so that wouldn't bother me at all
My RX actually spent 2 of its almost 7 years in the North East though. However I've really tried to take care of it.
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As others have already told you, no chance of what the dealer did in parts that you named having caused it. Opposite ends of the engine. Strictly coincidence.
Last edited by code58; Oct 20, 2009 at 11:29 PM.
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Thanks Code58. I am going to try the Auto-Rx first. I have a bottle left over in fact from a sludge test I did about more than a year ago. Going to order more today.
Just wanted to make sure it didn't have anything to do with the T-belt/water pump service. Coolant too..
Just wanted to make sure it didn't have anything to do with the T-belt/water pump service. Coolant too..
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I plan on using the 2oz per quart of oil, using dino oil drive 2500 and then do a rinse phase as the Auto-RX website says to do.
Is this what you did or did you modify any of the procedure?
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If you use Auto-RX, as Ray-N pointed out, you use dino oil with it. My uncle used to use this stuff in Mexico until we started having some issues importing it (and avoiding the hefty customs tax 
, but we were using Chevron 5W30 oil we got at Costco (one of the best conventional oils) for small passenger vehicles and used Castrol GTX (Walmart had it) and stuff generally for stuff powerful 6 cylinder vehicles and above.
, but we were using Chevron 5W30 oil we got at Costco (one of the best conventional oils) for small passenger vehicles and used Castrol GTX (Walmart had it) and stuff generally for stuff powerful 6 cylinder vehicles and above.
