my car has about 86k miles on it and its starting to leak oil...its not super bad but it leaves a small puddle

im prety sure its just a gasket or seal..most likely the intake or something like that i have seen kits on calmini and stuff with an engine rebuild kit?

should i do that? how hard would that be..im just thinking that ill have the car probably alot longer now so i dont want to have to keep taking it apart to change gaskets on the engine..any help would greatly appreciated =) thank you very much

You talking about a pinto or what?

LOL   Pinto  
it helps to have an idea of what you are
driving, and where it's leaking  

I'm leaking oil too. It looks like its coming from between the block and the tranny. Rear main? Its rather odd that it would go. I only have 80k on it. Who knows though anything is possible.

I'm leaking oil too. It looks like its coming from between the block and the tranny. Rear main? Its rather odd that it would go. I only have 80k on it. Who knows though anything is possible.

A real common leak is the o-ring that seals the distributor housing to the head. It'll run down the back of the engine and sometimes look like a rear main leak. I'd say check there first. This is on the 8-valve engines (1.3 and 1.6).

HTH -Eric

i have  the 16 valve motor in my tracker. I wish it was that. Any other suggestions? Andrew

My Sidekick never leaked any oil for 10 years until I started using Mobil 1.  It's nothing major so I'm just leaving it as it is.  It doesn't even leak all that much anymore.

I wish I Coudl say the same, mine leaks pretty heavily. It sucks but what can you do. Andrew

eh sorry i have a 91 track with the bv motor..and it seems to be leaking from the back of the motor

Guess I'll have to wait till spring to pull the tranny and see if its the rear main.....not looking foward to that.

A real common leak is the o-ring that seals the distributor housing to the head. It'll run down the back of the engine and sometimes look like a rear main leak. I'd say check there first. This is on the 8-valve engines (1.3 and 1.6).

HTH -Eric

Ya that happened to me a few months back. The O ring costs around $3 from the zuki dealer.  Replaced the rings and she ran as good as new.

Glad it went well for you! Some of us 16 valvers aren't quite as fortunate

so how do i tell if its the o ring thing? and how hard is it to fix? the car has never leaked before so id like to get it back to that otherwise itl never need another oil change lol

I used some oil treatment (not leak stop),  I forgot what it was,  but it was really thick and looked like honey.  It didn't stop the leak, but it did make it much better.

Hmm, if you could figure out what it was and let me know that would be helpful. Thanks