ALways always when you are lost, what is the first thing everybody says, Go back to the beginning and from there start all over again.

This is simpler than you think. First, cool dwon and let go of the emotions, Be One with the Engine...

Well, anyway::: Just get underneath the damn car, wipe everything off, everything, spankin clean.

Check the dipstick, put more oil if needed, then turn the car on and watch cautiously and I mean with a damn flashlight underneath the car and once in a while everywhere on the engine bay.

The oil pan has a main gasket which in my BP05 I do not use, instead I use gasket sealant and install fresh seals at both ends.

There is something called Chiltons or Haynes Automotive manual for your specific year and model. So, before you go crazy it does not hurt to get a little hint from those books which are greatly useful.

Take pictures of the damn engine when the leaking starts and from there we have something to work on. It just kills me that you are asking all kinds of questions desperately like if this forum would do magic and WALA problem solved.


Get a few pics of the engine bay and how the oil looks and create a website, whatever. Read into the books and learn all the gaskets involved on a BP05 or whichever block you've got. Put it this way, whenever you are gonna take a **** take the book with you with a pack of cigarrettes and browse thru it.

 

Well took it out to my dads, got the timing belt covers and pulleys off got down to the crankshaft area, we look and there sits the crankshaft seal...and what do we see?, a small trail of oil that was leaking out of it....soo we got to replace the crankshaft seal and we went to autozone, advancedauto(they gave us a camshaft seal ), went to a couple of otehr places NOBODY HAS THEM!, but my dad works as a mechanic in a couple of towns over in chattanooga and hes gonna go to a large part store up there were we got the piston rings and head gasket when we first got the car and replaced the back last winter, soo im carless for a few days, oh well atleast my car is getting fixed..i should have taken my car to him in the first place...

 

YAY, I got my car back after having the front crank seal put on and this old seal was really hard causing it to leak oil, got that replaced and now the protege is back in the yard..!

 

I am glad the oil leak has stopped.