Hot top is not cheap the price of oil is high so before u trash the whole industry lowrange look at the price of gas when u fill up also you do not know how big my driveway is.

hottop is made with petroleum products and bitiminus rock. plus you gotta put gas and fuel in the machines. if your implying that you could get a parking lot done for 6g's then someones ripping you off.


I have all the parts and im not a professional mechanic my dad has worked in garages but is getting older and has a bunch of his own stuff to fix right now we really don't have the time to mess with it he would rather fix his Harley and his wheelers go figure.

Ive got all the parts the oil pan the rear main and the gaskets I just picked them up and am having them installed next week.

Ive done a couple oil changes myself on this and everytime not once did I notice oil on the filter adaptor what is on there is old pastey caked up oil.

Nothing is wet on that adaptor I also cleaned and wiped off my oil pan and the back of the block went to the store to get some gas quick and parked it.

Then I watched it like a couple of you said and it was seeping out the oil pan the front of it not the rear and running slowly down to the back of the motor and eventually puddling up and dripping off just below the oil plug.

Im sure some of you could see how that would happen.

So it is still unclear if the sealant slowed down another leak such as the rear main because all I can see oil coming from is the oil pan at the moment it doesn't appear to be leaking out any other place but while im paying why screw around for 20 bucks just have the place put in the rear main

 

Interesting. My brother's Asphalt driveway is 120 yards long. Cost less than $6,000. I assume you're calling asphalt "Hot Top"? That must be a Yankee thing. I'm not sure where you got that I was insinuating you were trying to pave a parking lot? I'm sure a parking lot would cost far beyond $6,000. If your drive way is longer than 100 yards long then I can see why it costs $6,000. My Dad's finished cement driveway is 200ft long, 40ft wide and includes sidewalks. Guess what. Less than $6,000. What's strange is that I was far from offensive so I'm rather confused why you're so defensive...

Do you know how mechanics learned to be mechanics? They worked on their own junk. You don't have to be a professional mechanic or work in a garage to do this simple task. You can do this whole job with a small socket set and a gasket scrapper...

It's your money. Pay way too much if you want to. You came here asking for help and people are trying to help you. If you were just going to have a shop do it the whole time why not just drop it off, tell them to fix your leak and go pick it up when they're finished?

 

Just take it to a shop. You don't sound very sure of yourself.

 

X2. Unable to take suggestions.

 

There is a seal on the timing chain cover where the drive shaft comes out to the damper pulley. (harmonic ballancer). Besides that seal the ballancer it's self known to have problems. The bolt could be loose. (somebody trying to rotate the engine counter clockwise. Also its two piece btw. Has an inner part than a rubber ring, then the outer part with the timing mark.

Anyway that seal can leak. It's the ballancer it's self that contacts the ID of the seal in the cover when it's installed. If you run your finger on the back side, (rearward) side of that pully and your finger comes out oily, that seal is probably shot.

It might also leak there if that front vent on the valve cover is not free to vent.

 

Unable to take suggestions...................

 

That's Why I said that he's isn't worth the time to waist on. He asks for help and whines when every one tries to help him!

 

Yep. I raised 4 kids of my own. No need to raise someone else's.