 Can't stop the oil leak
I have had a local shop (works on BMW, Mercedes, Volvo, Porsche etc) reseal the oil filter housing. The first time, he only replaced the gasket, not the o-rings. This repair failed shortly after dumping most of the oil on the ground. I towed the car back to the garage. A few days later, I had the pleasure of paying for the towing and for the job again. This time he said he replaced the o-rings and the gasket. I paid the bill even though it was clearly a come-back. Now it's leaking again and he says that it might be a cracked block, cracked head, leaking from the timing cover, leaking P/S, oil pump over pressurizing, compressing in the bottom of the block etc but he can't look at it until later this week. Paying three times for the same repair isn't cool. What else could leak oil onto the top edge of the filter housing? I runs down the front of the block (along the filter housing) and down off the subframe.
1996, manual trans, A/C.
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