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Author:  mercdude [ Tue Oct 15, 2019 10:12 pm ]
Post subject:  Oil pressure sender leak

02 kj with rebuilt 3.7. Getting slowish oil leak (couple drips a night) near the oil filter and then got a low oil indicator lamp while driving one day. Checked oil level - plenty of oil it even to add oil level yet.

Question: are the oil pressure senders known to leak / fail on the 3.7 kjs?


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Author:  Gyro [ Wed Oct 16, 2019 5:50 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Oil pressure sender leak

Those were the symptoms I had on my 06.
Replaced it and all is well now.

Gyro

Author:  tommudd [ Wed Oct 16, 2019 6:38 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Oil pressure sender leak

mercdude wrote:
02 kj with rebuilt 3.7. Getting slowish oil leak (couple drips a night) near the oil filter and then got a low oil indicator lamp while driving one day. Checked oil level - plenty of oil it even to add oil level yet.

Question: are the oil pressure senders known to leak / fail on the 3.7 kjs?


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Cheap and easy fix, just replace the sender

Author:  mercdude [ Wed Oct 16, 2019 10:25 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Oil pressure sender leak

I’m also getting a bit of oil spray on the top of the engine from what I assume is oil hitting the cooling fan. Do you guys still think it’s the sender-Could valve cover gaskets also cause this pattern of oil leak?


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Author:  GordnadoCRD [ Thu Oct 17, 2019 5:01 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Oil pressure sender leak

Engine oil or transmission fluid hitting the cooling fan will be really evident. Even a small amount will spread all over the blades and transfer to anything that touches them. Just look at the fan from the engine side and it will have a wet film.

The first thing I would check for is a fuel leak along the injector valley, most likely a leaking or unclipped return tube somewhere.

First, Be VERY careful, and use a paper-sized cardboard feeler to make sure there are NO high pressure leaks. along the rail, injector feed tubes, and fittings. Even a very tiny one can penetrate your skin, causing immediate blood poisoning, with potentially fatal results.
THEN you can feel around the fuel return lines to the back and all the way to the return fuel manifold on the rear driver's side of the intake "Camifold" whilst it is running.
If you have leaks there, GM Duramax use the same return tubes fittings, and injector-fitting clips at a fraction of the price of JEEP OEM.

I know it seems counter-intuitive, but others have encountered oil (fuel) splatter from this source, because air movement actually blows foreward along the injector valley, and leaking fuel can both travel up the back side of the rear timing cover and be splattered along the top of the engine, and/or leak down behind the rear timing cover if it is not sealed to the head, and come forward along the fan pulley hub and again be flung around by the fan, but if this is the case, here again, the fan will have a wet film.

If your fan has no wet oily film, when the engine is off, feel along the rear top of the rear timing housing if there is wet oily film there.


EDIT: Wow I need to apologize for giving misleading info here. I completely overlooked that you have a v6 petrol engine, so the above does not apply. :!: :oops: :shock: :oops:

Author:  mercdude [ Thu Oct 17, 2019 12:18 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Oil pressure sender leak

Thanks for the info though! I’m going to check out the timing cover anyways


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