Thread: Help needed to identify nature of oil leak problem
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Old 03-15-2007, 01:03 PM
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Replace your oil filler cap or gasket as suggested earlier. Oil could be coming from there. Since you already clamped that elbow real good, oil could just be blowing to the elbow from the cap.
As I have already tried to make as clear as possible, the oil does NOT come from either the oil filler cap site or valve cover gasket... It comes specifically from the breather hose connection. There is also oil at the intake manifold below the air filter housing (which travels there through the breather hose) and it makes quite a mess down there...

Again, the problem is oil getting into the breather hose and leaking at the elbow connections, nothing to do with the oil filler cap or the valve cover gasket.

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Rino
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