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OMG smoking!!
i got home today and my car was smoking VERY badly
like pouring out of the engine bay it's leaking oil like crazy from somewhere and dripping all over the exhaust makin it smoke alot. tomarrow i'll jack up the car and have a look to see where it's leaking i'm hoping it's just the crank seal failing and not something worse..
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What color is the oil? That happened to me, and it was PS fluid. Check your hoses, both pressure and return. It sounds like someting that started all at once - like a hose or something. Good luck and I hope it is something simple.
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i coudln't see it's pitch black outside
i'll check in the morning see if a hose came undone or something it smelt like normal oil smoke but i've never actually encoutnered any other burning oils
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well it's daylight and i put the car up on wheel ramps, and i had a look see
there seem sto be a very thing hose dripping oil of some kind just hangin down it's about 1/8" diam, and it has some sort of plastic thingy around it a little ways up, i can't find where the other end is it's hanging down next tot he passenger side CV axle by the transmission any thoughts and any thoguhts how to fix this?
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you should punish your car. smoking is bad
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i'm a fan of positive reinforcement
i'll reward it when it corrects the problem
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seems it was the dipstick for the center diff.... i think the center diff, center or front
i wonder how long it's been like that and if it's been that way for a while i wonder why the car just now sprayed oil all over
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It has to be for the front diff. the center diff is part of the transmission, and uses the same ATF as the rest of the tranny.
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yeah i relize that now
but i still wonder how long it's been like that wonder why it popped out like that it's odd
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Are you sure about it using ATF? I changed the fluid in both diffs a couple of years ago, and I seem to remember that they both used gear fluid. Also, I would double check that the PS hoses aren't leaking.
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treat it to some nice Mobil 1!
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Well if we want to get technical, there isn't a center diff.
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k it seems that it isn't actualy the dipstick althoguh it was out
it still smoked a lot today when i parked the car this one time... somethign else has to be leaking oil where are these PS hoses i'm supposed to be looking for?
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