2001 3.0L Sport. found a new engine leak! Help ID seal?

[redraif]

So here I go saying I want to switch to synthetic cause my seals are good.... it's like the Sport heard me and said "HA that's what you think!"

So I sprayed the oil pan with brake cleaner to get rid of some old residual gunk last weekend and checked it this weekend while we were dropping off my grandson... ugh I have a leak. I assumed it was the differential leaking, but it seems like it traveled there from above....

I can't see the leak from above... but it's on the driver side, front of the motor above the oil filter & AC compressor (bottom accessory on that lower corner of the motor)... 3.0L motor... Ok here is a pic. any idea what seal is blown?

Nose is to the Left in the pic ...driver side at top.

 

[Jay Ayala]

Hey Red,
That looks like it may may be coming from the oil filter adapter. There is a triangular mating connection to the lower right of the harmonic balancer. If you haven't done a new timing belt, you may want to consider doing all of that at the same time.

 

[redraif]

Did a timing belt at 225,000... ugh...

 

[Jay Ayala]

Umm. Maybe I'm wrong about where it is coming from.


1989 Dodge Raider 3.0L

 

[redraif]

With my luck you are right... lol and it will be a big tear down to fix

 

[montypower]

You really need to clean everything and monitor it. After 200k miles it could be accumulation from any number of sources...

 

[redraif]

That's the current plan. I want to get under there and scrub all the gunk and see if I can see where it starts versus all the mess and slinging