I've had an oil leak in my tour for several months now. I'm much more concerned about it now. Several months ago I drove the car pretty hard and I think that's when it started the leak. I've noticed that the level of the engine oil has noticably dropped. The level of the ATX fluid looks normal. What could it be?


The blue circle is showing where I can see it dripping motor oil. Look at my tranny covered in motor oil.


Another pic of my tranny covered in motor oil. I know for sure it's motor oil. I've checked.


There is just a bit of dried up oil on the top of the engine by the filling cap.

main seal?

Clean the area well. Sprinkle some talcum powder all around it. Then drive it for a mile or two and you can probably narrow down where the leak is from.

I took it to a shop so they could look at it. They said it looks like it is leaking between the tranny and the engine. They said it might be the rear main seal. I hope not.

My car has 64k on it.

Looks like a rear main to me. I have 13X,XXX miles on mine and beat it pretty hard. I have that same leak. I bought a parts car with the same motor and trans to fix it. Then rebuild the original motor. Hope it goes well for you and hope that it is not it.

I suppose you could goto autozone and try a seal sweller.
A chemical in there supposedly softens and swells the rubber, perhaps then if it is a rear seal, it would go away. Also check the oil pan gasket and valve cover gasket.
On my contour zetec, the oil pan had rusted out.

Originally posted by sdowney717:

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I suppose you could goto autozone and try a seal sweller.
A chemical in there supposedly softens and swells the rubber, perhaps then if it is a rear seal, it would go away. Also check the oil pan gasket and valve cover gasket.
On my contour zetec, the oil pan had rusted out.

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ATP #atc-205 fluid system sealer