Well my mechanic (hes normally good never had any problems with him) threw the ink in the oil to find my oil leak a couple weeks back. He said it was coming from the headgasket so i bought a mopar DOHC HG set for roughly 100 dollars. Well it got installed free of charge and it still leaked oil. Now im pretty angry over the whole thing. Having my car with its new engine and i cant drive it. He checks again and the rear main seal was leaking onto the HG making it seem the HG was the source when all along it was the rear main seal. Now heres the part that pisses me off. I got the engine from a junkyard for 900 with 60K. THey told the automotive place to buy a thermostat and a rear mail seal for it before installing the engine. Well they never did and thats why it was leaking oil. They messed it all up themselves and have no one else to blame for it. Sorry had to vent.

 

Man that sucks spent a 100 for nothin.But at least you found out where it was leaking.

 

Yeah well the 98's didnt have the best HG so having a mopar headgasket doesnt hurt. The rear main seal is fixed now and no leaking. Things are finally looking up. Can start on my turbo project now

 

that makes no sense at all....
the rear main seal wouldnt leak onto the head gasket because in order to do this, your motor would have to be upside down...
the head gasket is above the rear main seal so the seal wouldnt leak onto the head gasket

 

^^^Thats exactly what I was thinking.

Oil sensor or cam seal maybe.

 

i don't know about you, but i'd much rather pay a hundred dollars for nothing, than to be the mechanic who put in a few hundred dollars of work for free.

 

i was gonna say that too. the main seal is like a full foot below any part of the head. do you think that maybe he meant that the cam seal was leaking? i know mine did.

 

cam seal is on the opposite side of the motor from the rear main seal.....my main guess would be the cam sensor seal

 

^^^You know what I meant....Camshaft position sensor.

 

well it was something along those lines i dont know they just thought the HG was leaking when in all reality it was the rear main sealand the mechanic did get paid just not by me by the junkyard who shipped the engine.