I took some pictures of the leak i found on my car tonight, not sure what it is... taking it to the shop tomorrow... any ideas i have some pics here... appreciate the help guys.













kind of hard to see... but u can see the oil drops up on the bottom there... if anyone here is really mechanically inclined with these cars give me an idea... thanks.

 

hmm, that looks more like trans fluid.. You sure it's oil?

 

sneakys right definite trans fluid looks like a gasket leak from your tranny check that gasket and i take it you ahve a stick shift so dont knoe if you have been hard on it or not but loooks like gasket

 

It looks like its coming from higher up, poke around the top side of you engine and tranny and see if you can find a source. If thats not it then it may just be a bad seal on the tranny.

 

see i was thinking tranny fluid, but it looks goldy brown, not sure on what the tranny fluid in these cars looks like tho. Old vehicles were a definite red colour. This makes sense since i was at the track the other day. . Had two clutch slips going from first to second, so maybe thats what caused it. Thanks a lot for the input guys appreciate it.

 

Edit: hard to tell with those pictures, the flash may be giving the oil a somewhat reddish tint making me think it's tranny fluid.

 

Looks like oil, possibly from your oil filter housing. If u had an oil change done recently, check and see if the plastic cap that holds your oil filter is tight/cracked?

 

clean it all up and then drive it around for a bit then recheck to see if you can see the source....this will be an easier way to get to the source rather than just guessing with the fluid all over the place.

 

The 5th pic looks like fluid leaking from the differential.

I dunno about the SS/SC but on my GT, there is a filler cap at the top of the trans just to the right of the oil filter housing. Maybe check the cap and the filter housing for tightness.

 

the stock trany and motor mounts are oiled filled correct could you have broken one of them?

 

omg omg i hav seen that before...your gonna need a whole new engine...yep yep yep that cant be fixed

 

Tranny fluid is Red, That looks brown to me...but it has a redish tinge to it so im confused as well.....maybe its oil and tranny fluid mixed? anyways good luck man!!


P.S the post before mine...was that really needed to be said like common...

 

ya what was the point of this... wanna enlighten me? Thanks to everyone else tho.

 

just a little update on the prob... let the car sit a night and the leakage stopped. put it in the garage and waited about 5 mins and no fluid on the floor. Then took the car out warmed it up and did some 0 - 60 launches and drove around town a bit. came home parked it in the garage and the leak fired up again, the spot i have circled and X'd is where it seems to be dripping from. Is this in fact oil or a part of the tranny. Looks to be the gasket has gone and when put under pressure is leaking, as once the car is right cooled down it stops... weirdness, surprised no one else has seen this as lots goto the track on here... car goes in tomorrow to the dealer for its doctors appointment so i'll have concrete answers on the matter soon. any more ideas or clarification is welcome.



also the vibrations from my torque brace are not noticable anymore, don't know why... i think the plates have bent where the ingalls bolts into the pressure plates. Put pics up tomorrow. Can't beleive it bent already its only 3 weeks old. I'm confused on the whole matter tho... I just know it used to vibrate pretty good when i started the car before and let it idle and now its like the brace isn't even on there.... anyone else had problems with the brace holding up ?

 

judging from the pictures looks like a bad axle seal.

 

take it to the dealer and get it fixed b4 it gets worse, then let us knwo where its coming form so we can check ours =)

 

Looks like a transmission seal wnt on ya man. Luck of the draw on that one, pure plain and simple. Doens't help any that you drag race it though.

 

lol first time tho ... wanted to get some times down stock so i can compare as i mod the car... I don't think i'm going to be there a whole lot, but it is a good way to see ur performance, also a little addicting i'm afraid tho .... its a performance car so i want it to be able to hold up either way ... let yas know the official outcome when i find out... something to watch for if ur driving hard or at the track ...

 

lol sorry i thought about ti afterwards and i came to the conclusion it was an ignorant comment to make...sorry man i was j/k

 

thats ok man ... i didn't know if that was ur attitude or a joke... computers blurr those lines sometimes... anyways still no answer on it .. have to take it back tomorrow, they didn't determine the leak location today and put some red dye in with the oil. So i'll see i guess.. grr i want it back... hehe

 

UPDATE , The Service Guy was saying it may be a crack in the rear main seal, so they have to take the engine right apart to determine if it is or not... gonna be a couple days... * sigh .

 

that sucks...and if its your main seal the good part is they gotta give you a hole new engine...so i guess thats the bright side of it...just have to go through break in again...thats good and bad depending on how you look at it...good luck

 

really... they'd put in a whole new engine?

 

so found out that its a hairline crack in the transmission case... i might need a whole new tranny... find out on friday again now. Its been in the shop for almost 2 weeks now.. ahh!