Front cover leak

[Dave Fehrle]

What are the yellow highlighted things?  As I will replace front cover gasket, oil pan gasket and tear main seal along with rear main bearing cap fix, is there going to be something else needing attention with these yellow highlighted items?!i

[Ray Schick]

[Russ Austin]

THise rubber tits are the oil pan gasket as pictured below. For the rear main seal, DO NOT USED Best Gasket brand as it is a known defective seal The company knows about it and continues to sell them.  

Get a good rear main seal from Caddy Daddy.  Use a seal saver on the harmonic balancer to repair the lip in the sealing surface. 

[Dave Fehrle]

Thank you! Learned something new about the front and rear gaskets on the oil pan!

Russ, not familiar with a seal saver for the harmonic balancer?

[Dennis P. DiBari]

Hi Dave,

     I haven't had to use one, but if there is a groove in the harmonic balancer (the part that fits onto the crankshaft), the thin seal saver can allow a smooth rotation near the front seal.  Russ is 100% right.  It might tap on easier if H. Balancer is frozen and sleeve is heated in oven.

Dennis DiBari

[Matti Roth]

balancer not yet in place so you can see the seal saver there