BIG OIL LEAK
 

Just picked my daughter up from school and as I was parking my trucvk just started leaking tons of oil? There was a small trail of oil for about 50 feet. Then when I parked it puddled up to which looks like about 2 or 3 quarts of oil. It leaked off the right hand back side. Getting on top of the engine I could see there was alot of oil pooled up where the oil filter is. yet no leaks on the filter houseing. Taking a chance I started it up ( turned over just fine) and could see the pool of oil grow. I cant pin point the area yet. But looks like the top of the oil cooler maybe or what looks like the oil pressure ? or temp sending unit?
any ideas what could make that much oil pour out so fast? Ill get some pics in abit. Waiting for wife to get home to watch the kids.

Sucks because my warranty expired in Dec and didnt bother to renew an extended warranty.

Cant upload my pictures as I cant find my usb cord for my phone.
I took off the tubes to turbo to get a look at the leak area. Im not sure what it is but its either the oil pressure or temp sending unit thats right next to the oil filter housing. Oil was coming out of that. Is it common for them to go out or should I be worried about more to come? Could me oil pressure have dropped enough to harm the injectors? Truck was never more then 1k rpms from when ti started leaking to when I shut it off.

The sensor toward the back is the presure sensor and the one more to the left and front is the oil temperature sensor, they have orings on them too. As far as injectors they will be fine, 2 different oil systems, the good thing is the truck cannot run without oil. This to my knowledge is not common, go to your Ford dealer and pop the new part in and you should be OK. the oil is at 75psi so the alot can come out of a tiny hole. if it is definately coming out of one of those sensors just rplace it and top off you oil.

What about turbo feed and drain? I'm not sure how much oil goes thru them?

Thanks Bobfbigman.

I looked up the part and its $31 and change. It def was running out of the top of that sensor. Only place I could find oil coming out. It pretty much just pooled up till it ran off the backside of the engine.
Scared the crap outta me seeing tht much oil at first. It reminded me of blowing up my gaser in my old truck years ago. So that shock of seeing all that oil had me sh--ing myself.

You think thats bad?? I had a bypass filter come loose and lost 3 gallons of oil in about 200 yards as I was pulling out of a parking lot and onto the road, truck shutoff because no oil for the HPOP and I coasted to a side street, had my friend who is an Amsoil dealer bring me some oil, it was 10pm, and fired it back up and went back to that parking lot to see the carnage. It was so bad I had to call the fire department so they could put about 10 bags of oildry down on the parking lot and road so no one got hurt by slipping on it, it would have sucked if someone on a motorcycle hit it.

Is this on a smartphone? Just email the picture to yourself and post it here? Or text it to me and I'll post it. PM on the way.

WOW, that would be the presure sensor, pull it out and take it with you when you pick up the new part to make sure all is right. This reminds me that there was another guy on here that had oil ontop of his motor on drivers side and couldn't figure out where it was coming from, I hope he checks this thread out and checks his sensor too.

My wife and I smelt oil a few days ago but thought it was the Dodge in front of me. uess it started small and today just blew it all out. So if that is the pressure sending unit and yet truck ran fine and started fine when I tried to find the leak. Would it have caused any harmful drop in pressure to do any damage to injectors?

And thanks Mdub for posting the pic for me. :c:


I know for sure that it was this sensor. It looked like one of those Chocolate fountains with all the oil coming out the top of it.

No, that leak was in the low oil presure circuit, the injectors run off a seperat high presure oil pump and the injectors won't be hurt even if the high presure oil system runs out of oil because the oil is what makes the injectors work so basically they can't get hurt if they arent working if that makes sense, you only lost a couple quarts in asystem that holds 4 gallons.

OK that makes sense. Thanks again for the info. My mind is at ease knowing I shouldnt have any major problem. Now since Ill be in there I think Ill do the zodad mod and the mod to run that pvc? pipe to the rear end instead of into the turbo.

Thanks again....:c:

Yeah if you run out of enough oil it just wont start/run.

I have to say, this is a first for me, never seen one do that. Crazy.

The mod you're thinking of is the CCV mod (crank case vent).

Yeah thats it the CCV mod. So I dropped my daughter off at school wich is about 2 miles from the house. There was a large puddle of oil in the school parking lot. Wasnt positive if it wa from me yesterday or not. But I followed the trail all the way home this morning. So looks like I lost alot more then 2 or 3 quarts. Looked to be heavy enough of a leak to drop a couple gallons at the least.
Ill get that sensor out this week. ( got rent due which is EXPENSIVE here for a 2 bed 1 bath. $1680 month) So will have to wait till I get alittle extra cash for part and oil. But when I get it out Ill take some good pictures of it and have them posted in this thread so you all can see what happened.

That's quite a bit of oil to lose! Holy crap. Though, a little oil looks like a BIG mess on the ground too.

$1680 a month.... holy fawk. I pay $500 for a 3 bedroom house, with a detached garage haha, I'm on the opposite end of the expensive living spectrum. But I'm surrounded by white trash. Never felt so at home anywhere though... :w2:

Yeah $1680 and thats a 2 bed apartment with no garage or storage. Sucks. Up north where I used to live I could BUY 2 houses for that. Cheapest house around here would be about $550k for a 2 bed 2 bath with 1 car garage.
$500 a month dang havnt seen prices that cheap since I lived in AZ back in 95.


I thought the same thing about all the oil. A little could look like alot. But I had a big puddle in school parking lot and a big enough trail all the way home that it looked like I used a shop broom over some water. And at each stop sign / light there was a small puddle forming. Ill know for sure what I lost after I refill it.

replaced the Engine Oil Pressure switch today. It was what was leaking. There is a silicon seal on top where the ( White ) plastic part meets the bottom aluminum part. The seal broke. I asked the parts guy at Walnut Creek ford about it. He said he has sold a few of them but never asked what happened. He thought it was something to do with the electrical part of it. First time he heard of a seal going and someone loosing about 2 gals of oil. Got the part and 5 quart jug of oil for $51. Gotta go back and get some more oil..

BTW the Engine oil pressure switch PART# is 9278 ( SW-5267 ) Runs about $31. I got it for $25. And Toulsey Ford lists it at $20.

Cool, glad you got it going.

03 ford 6.0
 

I justl got a 03 6.0. There a really bad oil leak thats runs down the drive side font head can cant see where its coming from. And ideas

you should start a specific thread with pictures if you could