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Re: 22RE Oil leak somewhere.......?
| Posted By: | Ron |
| Posted On: | September 30, 2002 at 7:27 pm EDT |
It's probably your front crank seal. It sounds exactely like the problem I had when mine went bad. It's not real hard to replace, at least on mine it wasn't. But if you'd rather, supply the parts and a dealership will do it for less than $200. I checked around before I did mine.
Darril wrote:
> My 91 Toyota Pickup with 22RE
> engine is also leaking oil lik
> e mad. I can't seem to locate
> where the oil is coming from.
> Today i degreased the entire e
> ngine in an attempt to pinpoin
> t the location of my oil leak.
> Afterwards, i started the tru
> ck up and let it run. Once the
> engine warmed up, it started
> to leak oil. I have narrowed t
> he oil leak down to one area,
> but i have no idea where exact
> ly it is coming from. The oil
> is coming out in the vicinity
> of the alternator pulley and m
> ain pulley(crankshaft pulley?)
> . In the 5 minutes the engine
> was running, it managed to coa
> t the entire alternator with o
> il, and a mist coated the grou
> nd in a perfectly straight lin
> e about 3 feet wide directly u
> nder the front of the truck. W
> TF? Ive been under the truck a
> nd i cannot find the leak. Any
> one have any ideas? Is this a
> common occurence for this engi
> ne? I purchased the truck last
> year, and it has been sitting
> for about 9 months now. It di
> dn't leak when i bought it.
>
> Darril
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