Blowing oil

[Nyoest]

No if I buy a TV at wally world and it wont work I take it back and get my money back !!!!! I wont get into the costly down time I PM ed someone and I wont say any more to cause bad feeling ,Put it this way there are VERY FEW people that I let work on my equipment because of this very thing. Yes people do have bad days but when I worked I really couldn't have any. If you F up with a truck full of GAS it's either going to cost you and everybody for a few blocks around a little more than OPP'S or it's going to cost the company that I worked for hundreds of thousands of dollars. How many screw ups do you think that would take before your dead or unemployed. I guess im just a little livid about people doing their jobs HALF A**ED AND PULLING THEIR HEAD OUT OF THEIR A** it started working on aircraft and had two buddies that trusted a 18 year old kid to THINK while I did something on their plane. That's what's wrong with the craftsmenship of American prod. today OPPPPPP'S O WELL LET ME TRY AGAIN

There is no one more fed up than I with incompetence, you'l just have to trust me there.

That said it's not an air plane it's an oil pan. Every one of us has posted with our respective thoughts and that is just what they are thoughts.

Every bit of this thread is pure speculation with
the exception if of the OP. None of us are there, none of us can lay eyes on this deal and call it.

I work at an independent shop, just like the one of the ones you are so fond of. We have no factory support,no tsb updates and two to three year old scanner data. I work on ford 6. 0 s
, duramax 6. 6 and cummins 5. 9 /6. 7. You are right I will be much better diagnosing an intricate problem on any of the THREE oems than a factory trained tech on ONE engine with factory manuals. Every day is an uphill battle to learn the hard way what factory techs are handed at training seminars in pamphlets. I'm not whining just trying to give some bit of perspective. I will comment no further in this thread. I'm not picking a fight just trying give some balance. Not every dealer can be great and one bad experience should not sour the relationship.

That said this is not an intricate problem just an oil leak. It will be found and resolved, unfortunately not the first time but it will be resolved.

Wertles hang in there it will be better.

 

[rscurtis]

A very small leak at the rear main bearing/crankshaft seal is pretty common on Cummins engines with miles. That is definitely not your problem.

I could also be the "O" ring between the lower valve cover and the the head. At first glance, it looks like a rear seal leak, but the oil is actually running down the back of the block. I have to replace the one on my signature truck. I first thought it may have been a seal leak, but when I removed the inspection cover on the bottom of the transmission, the flywheel and converter area was dry as a bone. It leaves a couple drops on the ground, but it takes a day or two after I drive it.