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- From: kelley@cwis.unomaha.edu (Sean Kelley)
- Subject: Re: intermittent oil leak
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- Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
- References: <1992Jul30.183850.10156@hubcap.clemson.edu>
- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 01:24:22 GMT
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- jlysagh@hubcap.clemson.edu (james joseph lysaght) writes:
-
- >Here is a probelm I personally find unusual. Again, this is with my 74
- >cadillac which is presently making up for years of trouble free use.
- >The car has developed an oil and tranny leak but these leaks appears to be
- >intermittent. The car was going fine with no leak at all. Then, one
- >day about 2 weeks ago my wife parked in a friends driveway and about 10
- >minutes later I noticed A LOT of oil running out under the car. I lost
- >1.5 qt oil and 1 qt tranny fluid all at once in that instance. I place the car up on ramps and found tranny pan wet all around but not anywhere above
- >it. Leak appeared to be from tranny pan gasget. I also found that the
- >oil pan but not the engine above was wet with oil and the oil appeared to
- >be coming from around the pan edge at both the front and back (where it
- >meets the tranny). I refilled both fluids and continued to watch it with
- >intent of repairing soon. For 2 weeks now the car has held it's fluids
- >not lost a drop. How is this possible? Aslo, for when the time comes
- >to do such work as replace these gasgets, how can I jack the car? It
- >weighs 5000 pounds curb weight. It has over the years bent and colapsed
- >3 sets of ramps and pushed more than it's fair share of jacks down
- >through the pavement. Anyone have experience with jacking cars this
- >heavy and working under them? Obviously, due to it's tendency to
- >collaps ramps and sink jacks I am reluctant to stay under it for long.
- >These ramps and jacks WERE all rated to be strong enough for this car.
-
- >Ji
- well, as far as the weight of the car goes, there is a trick that I
- heard about from some truck(the big 4x4) racers...
- they take some 2x4's and cut them to about 4 four length...and run them
- about five per level, and make about 8-10 levels out of the 2x4's and
- nail the levels together...if this enough to hold up the big trucks, i
- think that it should work for your caddy....
-
- as far as the leaks...hummmm....does sound like a problem...is it the
- pan gasket???...both that is???...i did not know better, i would say
- that your car has a gremlin, or some one just poured some oil under your
- car just to make you go mad...
- m
-