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Old Apr 13, 2007 | 02:14 AM
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Need Some advice / opinion

I tried to start my car yesterday, i was cranking it and i know my timings off so my it popped a couple times as i was trying to start it, but as a result of my attemp to start the car, my car leaked out some oil, about a quart.
Its done this same thing before, sometimes without any sort of pattern or warning my car pisses out a bunch of oil, even tho it was at the perfect level just prior to this. It seems that whenever the engine is under / load when it shakes due to my tying to start it or the initial load of driving off the stall it causes the oil to come out. Even though the engine didnt run yesterday it lost alot of oil on the stall. What sort of problem could cause this, is it possible i have a cracked block? ( the car runs pretty well ) Could the main seal account for such an intermittant / unpredictable oil leak?
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Old Apr 13, 2007 | 01:40 PM
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Re: Need Some advice / opinion

Can you identify the location of the oil leak?
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Old Apr 13, 2007 | 02:23 PM
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Re: Need Some advice / opinion

I tried looing underneath, it looks to becoming flowing down from the somewhere just behind the front wheels, in the middle, the oil pan and the transmission both appear to be wet.
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