heres what i got, i have a 94 toyota pickup with a 22re. i replaced the oil pan gasket because i thought that was the problem, now i still have leaking oil. i seems to be coming from somewhere near the belts because its flinging it everywhere on the engine, any clues?

 

positive it's motor oil?

sounds like the front main...

how bout PS fluid from the pump?

 

Valve cover gasket might be leaking. Or front main seal.

 

bet its your front oil seal right behind your crank pulley

 

when mine was doin that, it was the front oil seal. id replace that, and see if it still leaks

 

X5 Front main seal . I've been meaning to do mine for awhile !

 

Yup sounds like the front seal. Mine did the same thing.

 

My seal is leaking as well!! its on my list of thing i'd rather not be doing today. It just started leaking about a month ago. I replaced it about three years ago when I rebuilt the motor. I think I am ready for another rebuild lot of hard DD miles and offroad hours.

 

hmmm well you guys pretty much reassured me i was thinking of the right thing, im gonna have to drain the oil to replace that seal right?

 

Nope. Drain the radiator and pull it. Remove the belts. Get a puller for the crank pulley, pull the pulley, pull the oil pump off the front of the block, replace the seal in the oil pump, replace the skinny little gasket, bolt it all back together and fire it up. Check for leaks, be happy that there aren't any and love life. It takes about 2 hours.

 

ok guys im getting to the front seal but i got a problem how the hell do you take of the pulley thing in front of the oil pump theres a large bolt thats on there really tight and i have a puller for pulleys and front end harmonic balancer puller, anyone think they could send me some pictures of how to do it or something?

 

get a socket that fits the bolt and a long breaker bar... pull the coil wire... put the socket and breaker bar on with the breaker bar against the driver's side frame rail and crank the engine for about 1/10 of a second.
remove the bolt and the pulley 'should' slide of with maybe a bit of resistance.

 

so pretty much wedge the breaker bar on and turn over the engine really quick, where is the coil wire located, and i guess that means ill have to put the oil back into the truck lol.

 

ignition coil- center terminal of the distributor- pull the wire from the distributor and ground the end of it.
won't need oil in the engine cause you're only going to use the starter long enough to spin the crankshaft and loosen the bolt.