[JrZook]

karlmarkiewicz wrote:

Also, if it is any relevance, I have a MASSIVE oil leak, seems like it could be a rear main seal, which I sincerely hope it is not, strange thing is the dip stick doesn't go down

T even notice any change in your dipstick due to an oil leak, every square inch of the under side of your vit would be dripping wet with oil!

[karlmarkiewicz]

alien wrote:

smell the oil... perhaps its gearbox oil thats leaking and not engine.

It's brown, but then again there is alot of dirt under there. To be honest, I actually couldn't smell it, maybe I just have a bad sense of smell. But I regularly check the ATF dip stick and engine oil, and they don't go down, but yeah, just a massive leak.

[karlmarkiewicz]

JrZook wrote:

karlmarkiewicz wrote:

Also, if it is any relevance, I have a MASSIVE oil leak, seems like it could be a rear main seal, which I sincerely hope it is not, strange thing is the dip stick doesn't go down

T even notice any change in your dipstick due to an oil leak, every square inch of the under side of your vit would be dripping wet with oil!

Oh really. hahah. Well there you go. Actually I might take a picture for you guys.

[karlmarkiewicz]

Not sure how well you can see it, but ALL the selected areas are wet with oil. Also, I noticed by exhaust is wet with oil, and so is my chasis, so I think it must be landing on the drive shaft or something and oil is just spitting every where. Not too sure. Also, the leak from the tranmission plug is tiny, that is just because I accidently threaded the screw

[dhglory]

Sure looks like a rear main having its first spit, they start big and then slow down before completely throwing up.
Did you find out if it was the front cover?

[atari4x4]

troll

[Chop]

dhglory wrote:

Sure looks like a rear main having its first spit, they start big and then slow down before completely throwing up.
Did you find out if it was the front cover?

Considering your a newb to vitara's you sure do seem to know alot all of a sudden?

[atari4x4]

i want to know who's dick he had to suck off to get unbanned?

[burls]

Gents

you have made my afternoon thoroughly enjoyable and educational at the same time. GO figure

[karlmarkiewicz]

HAHAHAH Wow. Made my arvo too.

dhglory wrote:

Sure looks like a rear main having its first spit, they start big and then slow down before completely throwing up.
Did you find out if it was the front cover?

Srs answer though. It is leaking from a lot of places. Rear main seal definitely looks like the culprit for the main leak, that seems to be putting oil EVERYWHERE including all down my exhaust, and even at the back?
It is also leaking from the transmission sump plug, that is a tiny leak and nothing to worry about. And lastly IT IS leaking from the 'front cover' i think. It is leaking oil just below my spark plugs and it is leaking on my extractors, which means ever single time I drive the car fills with burning oil smell, and smokes a bit.

only had a 150,000 when I bought it, clearly the last owners did not care for the engine.

[karlmarkiewicz]

OH also.

I put in 20 Litres of 95, and no joke, ever since doing that my car has not struggled on start up. It starts a tiny bit rough but it is getting better with each start.
So I am not sure if I am safe to say this yet, but 98 fuel seems to be the culprit for the struggling on start up. Then again, it might just be the three brands of 98 fuel I tried that makes it struggle?

[dhglory]

karlmarkiewicz wrote:

HAHAHAH Wow. Made my arvo too.

dhglory wrote:

Sure looks like a rear main having its first spit, they start big and then slow down before completely throwing up.
Did you find out if it was the front cover?

Srs answer though. It is leaking from a lot of places. Rear main seal definitely looks like the culprit for the main leak, that seems to be putting oil EVERYWHERE including all down my exhaust, and even at the back?
It is also leaking from the transmission sump plug, that is a tiny leak and nothing to worry about. And lastly IT IS leaking from the 'front cover' i think. It is leaking oil just below my spark plugs and it is leaking on my extractors, which means ever single time I drive the car fills with burning oil smell, and smokes a bit.

only had a 150,000 when I bought it, clearly the last owners did not care for the engine.

yeah, someone took his lolly.

looks like you're gonna have to get both done.

[droverdave]

The only place the rear main seal shoudl actaully leak from is from the gap between the engine and the gearbox. in my experience with rear main seals the oil pools in the bell housing and just drips out.

I cant quite work out in your photo where abouts the gearbox meets the engine in relation to all those oil covered areas.

Is that bolt you have circled in the middle, is that the sump bolt? or something else.

I would start by degreasing the whole thing, then looking where the oil starts from.

[dhglory]

front timing cover RH top corner for starters, Suzuki didn't put enough sealant on it and they start leaking from between the cover and engine.
oil running onto the manifolds resulting in STINK!
not much you can do but re-seal it.
rear main covers the whole chassis and exhaust in oil when they let go.
probably looking at $ 800 bucks at least to have both done.

[karlmarkiewicz]

droverdave wrote:

The only place the rear main seal shoudl actaully leak from is from the gap between the engine and the gearbox. in my experience with rear main seals the oil pools in the bell housing and just drips out.

I cant quite work out in your photo where abouts the gearbox meets the engine in relation to all those oil covered areas.

Is that bolt you have circled in the middle, is that the sump bolt? or something else.

I would start by degreasing the whole thing, then looking where the oil starts from.

That bolt I circled is no biggy, is it the ATF sump.
dhglory has got it I think, pretty much confirmed that the rear main seal is stuffed!

[atari4x4]

ahhh good times

did you ever sort this out karl?

will have to get around to filming the cold start on my bus on caltex 98 & bp 98.