Hi, everyone i have a 3.0L voyager with about 155,000km on the engine and i
have some kind of engine oil leak. Can someone point out the locations
where i should look. The whole underside of the front end is covered up in
engine oil. i think its coming from the back of the engine. Any ideas, plus
i have lots of smoking coming out at the back too..
thxs.. Mike

"mike113" <michael_yu8 (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote

All you need to do is having perform an oil leak dye test on this vehicle to
determine all the oil leaks at one time. It is a sure fire way of locating
them.
Oil leaks are common from the valve cover gaskets, camshaft seals and plugs
and the head gaskets. Not to say the valve guide dropping and causing the
engine to smoke bad at idle.
If you have smoke from idle and plan on keeping this vehicle you may as well
have the heads removed and repaired.
My opinion

Glenn Beasley
Chrysler Tech

Hmmmm the 3.0 Mitsubishi engine.... Lemme think....

I used to have a 94 Acclaim with that engine. Basically it leaked oil
like a sieve! Then it started running rough and I discovered it had a
distributor instead of a coil pack, then the A604 tranny started to
act up......

Sorry, after my experience with that crazy 3.0 engine, I vowed I will
never own one again. IMHO the design is inferior. For what it is, it
requires toooooo much maintenance. I now have the 94 Grand Caravan
with the 3.3 engine - and that puppy is solid as a rock. It has never
run rough, it has NEVER let me down. If you ever switch vans, the 3.3
or the 3.8 are the way to go.

With my 3.0, it was puking oil so bad I just said to heck with it and
sold the car. It was so bad it was a check to gas fill the oil
situation. And it was definiely a leak because the car passed
emmissions testing with flying colours. There is still an oil spot in
the parking lot at work where I used to park that car - some 4 years
after the fact. It actually etched into the pavement.

On Sat, 12 Nov 2005 12:45:34 -0500, "mike113"
<michael_yu8 (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote:

"mike113" <michael_yu8 (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote

What is the speed the oil leaks out at?

If your going through a quart every 1000 miles, well then you can put a
whole lot of quarts of oil in there before you get near the cost of a simple
repair.

Ted