Hello Everybody,
Some of you may know that this past weekend the Northeast had an unusual heat wave run thru with temps. pushing 100 degrees! The hottest day was last Friday, which happened to be the day of a Luke Bryan country concert that I had been looking forward to driving the deuce too for a some tailgating. Needless to say running up the highway and idling in traffic for about an hour she got HOT!!! temp gage read 210 degrees when we finally stopped, no big deal, we tailgated for a few hours and then ran home around 8pm back down the highway. The motor got hot (about 210) again and then when I stopped at home after letting her idle for a moment i shut her down and noticed she was "puking" oil on the ground from the plug hole in the picture. I thought it might be a rear main seal on the motor but the leak stopped after a few min. The following day I drove her across town to a spot i can leave the truck for a while as i look up how to change the seal but when i parked there was no leak, maybe or two but not like puking oil the day before.
So could it be a rear main seal or maybe a breather tube is plugged a bit and when the motor got cooking the oil just pushed out somewhere else? I'm not the diesel mechanic i wished i was so any advice would be great and im really hoping its not a rear main!!
thanks!
Some of you may know that this past weekend the Northeast had an unusual heat wave run thru with temps. pushing 100 degrees! The hottest day was last Friday, which happened to be the day of a Luke Bryan country concert that I had been looking forward to driving the deuce too for a some tailgating. Needless to say running up the highway and idling in traffic for about an hour she got HOT!!! temp gage read 210 degrees when we finally stopped, no big deal, we tailgated for a few hours and then ran home around 8pm back down the highway. The motor got hot (about 210) again and then when I stopped at home after letting her idle for a moment i shut her down and noticed she was "puking" oil on the ground from the plug hole in the picture. I thought it might be a rear main seal on the motor but the leak stopped after a few min. The following day I drove her across town to a spot i can leave the truck for a while as i look up how to change the seal but when i parked there was no leak, maybe or two but not like puking oil the day before.
So could it be a rear main seal or maybe a breather tube is plugged a bit and when the motor got cooking the oil just pushed out somewhere else? I'm not the diesel mechanic i wished i was so any advice would be great and im really hoping its not a rear main!!
thanks!
But seriously what is the fluid level in the transmission? Oil level should be atleast 1 nuckle below the fill plug hole. Oil expands when hot and will belch out bering retainer.