Originally Posted By: dkryan
Originally Posted By: Merkava_4
Originally Posted By: dkryan
Not that I've seen.
Then it's not a real leak; it's just a seep.
I'm really beginning to believe that.
The mechanic said it was a "high pressure seal" and that it would leak while I was driving, not while the engine was off.
That made no sense to me. What? Turning the key turns the leak on or off?
If the seal is, in fact, bad, it will leak. Period.
My wife drove the SUV about 30 miles today, then shut it off. We left in my Altima and when we returned three hours later, there was no oil (not even one drop) on the garage floor.
And though it only has 300 miles on the odometer since the oil change, the oil level is full.
The only way to know for sure is to get it up on a lift and look at it myself.
Yeah it makes sense. The oil pump isn't pumping oil to the mains when the engine isn't running. And when the engine isn't running, the oil is in the pan, not up by the rear main seal. That's why rear main seal leaks ONLY leak when the engine is running.