Re: Small oil leak...

[beatlesra1@xxxx]

--- In dmcnews@xxxx, RJRavalli@xxxx wrote:
> Okay, I've been dreading asking about this, fearing the response I 
might get, but I figure I better do so sooner than later. I have 
been noticing a small oil leak that apparently occurs all the time, 
whether or not the car has been running. It is not a whole lot so it 
has not been scaring me, but I figure I better find out what is going 
on. It seems to run in a straight "north-south" line right down the 
middle of the engine. 
> 
> So how bad is my problem here? The engine does have 140k miles on 
it, but I hope it's not ready to be scrapped. Any ideas?
> 
> Thank you much,
> 
> Richard

Dear Richard,
I had the same thing and the problem turned out to be the small brass 
ring that goes on the oil filter was missing, cost about 25 cents to 
fix.

Chuck
Vin#6125