start by seeing what the colour of the oil is, if its red than thats hydraylic fluid commonly used in transmission and power steering. Clear/blue/green is brake fluid and light brown to black is motor oil...
Exactly what area is it leaking onto?? best bet is to degrease and pressure clean the whole motor top to bottom then go from there with a bright torch.
If it is the pan gasket than its a b1tch, got to jack the motor up slightly and all.
if its right up the back of the motor in the middle your most likely looking at a rear main seal which is just as much of a prick. got to slide the transmission back a few inches to do it properly. leave it on the driveway with some tissue or paper under the car and see exactly where its coming from once you hop under there with a light.
lol be thankful if its the rear main its not the old rope seal m8.... but in all if it is its a bitch....Mind you it should be a rubber seal if its a seris 2 motor! and be prepared for lots of swearing and knuckle grazing if you decide to do it the hard way (motor out dude, not that hard) my advice would be rip the donk out, the you can replace core plugs ect (and they are a bitch) oil ect you get my drift and besides with the motor out its alot better to see xactly what is wrong with the rest of the under body!
on me old VN i replaced every gasket except the rear main and head gaskets but i replaced...rocker cover/s gaskets, timing cover gasket, inlet and vally cover gaskets, sump gasket etc... sump gasket was teh main cause of the pooling of oil under car ...after changing the sump gasket there was not one drop of oil ..not even from rear main seal and this is/was on a 330 000 k engine (now has 370 + as me mate brought it from me)
with the sump gasket i replaced it buy removing the cross member and supporting the engine buy makeing up a support beam across the strut towers using old strut tops etc...worked well..keeping in mind that when i did this the whole front end was in pices anyway (replaced all suspension) oh and it want tooo hard just time consuming.
yeah i will have a look at it more close sly. I will back in over my hoist leave it on the ground with some tissue paper underneath to see exactly where the leak is coming from decreasing the motor first.
then i will raise it up and have a look with the torch. I was hoping it would be to hard of a job in that i didn't want to put heaps of money or time into the V6.
My intentions were if that it completely blew up I'd yank it out of there and drop new rebuilt V6 (quicker one) or a V8 and start again fresh.
I'll take it to my dad's workshop and get his opinion too.
thanks for you guys in giving such a detailed help in that area.
I'll show you the Rick James cell. It's superfreaky!.
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Posted - 05 Feb 2009 : 2:52:31 PM
(motor out dude, not that hard) my advice would be rip the donk out, the you can replace core plugs ect (and they are a bitch) oil ect you get my drift 