HAFICON
Adventurer
Looking for anyone who has had the following symptoms and or problem:
2012 JKU 3.6L
Auto
Right side head (sitting at the steering wheel) area appears not to be leaking but pouring oil. So some jack wagon almost hit me, in avoidance of a near collision I went from a gradual drive off to full throttle. Once I cleared his path which was straight at my Jeep I let off the throttle immediately followed by the smell of burning oil white smoke in thru the air vents. Heater was running. I shifted the Jeep into neutral shut off the engine and got off the road, popped the hood checked everything out right away was low on oil. Got under the Jeep and noticed the entire transmission bell housing was coated in oil some was still burning off the exhaust.
So I got the Jeep home cleaned it all up, did a full oil chance was about that time anyway. Let it idle no leaks, took it for a drive did one hard acceleration as if merging into traffic to try to replicate the situation, stopped and checked and new fresh oil had leaked all on the transmission again. Went and bought a bore scope checked all under the intake, back of the engine everywhere I could access. I was thinking or well hoping that is was as simple as the oil sending unit that is a pretty easy job. Regardless changing the sending unit requires pulling the intake manifold, so I guess I am going to do that this Thursday and get a better look. After inspection it looks like it could be the head gasket, the entire valley under the lower intake plenum is coated with fresh oil. The oil sending unit is under the upper plenum and that area appears to be dry. The Jeep is running perfect, no light, no codes, no loss of power. Oil leak is only noticeable under load and at higher RPM(rare for me) also (higher as in like dropping into passing gear) which of course is when the oil pressure is on the higher side. Coolant is fine, no fluid mixture on either end. No bubbles in the coolant indicating exhaust and coolant mix, no smoke nothing just oil running down the block.
Anyone have a related issue?
Thanks
James Blue
2012 JKU 3.6L
Auto
Right side head (sitting at the steering wheel) area appears not to be leaking but pouring oil. So some jack wagon almost hit me, in avoidance of a near collision I went from a gradual drive off to full throttle. Once I cleared his path which was straight at my Jeep I let off the throttle immediately followed by the smell of burning oil white smoke in thru the air vents. Heater was running. I shifted the Jeep into neutral shut off the engine and got off the road, popped the hood checked everything out right away was low on oil. Got under the Jeep and noticed the entire transmission bell housing was coated in oil some was still burning off the exhaust.
So I got the Jeep home cleaned it all up, did a full oil chance was about that time anyway. Let it idle no leaks, took it for a drive did one hard acceleration as if merging into traffic to try to replicate the situation, stopped and checked and new fresh oil had leaked all on the transmission again. Went and bought a bore scope checked all under the intake, back of the engine everywhere I could access. I was thinking or well hoping that is was as simple as the oil sending unit that is a pretty easy job. Regardless changing the sending unit requires pulling the intake manifold, so I guess I am going to do that this Thursday and get a better look. After inspection it looks like it could be the head gasket, the entire valley under the lower intake plenum is coated with fresh oil. The oil sending unit is under the upper plenum and that area appears to be dry. The Jeep is running perfect, no light, no codes, no loss of power. Oil leak is only noticeable under load and at higher RPM(rare for me) also (higher as in like dropping into passing gear) which of course is when the oil pressure is on the higher side. Coolant is fine, no fluid mixture on either end. No bubbles in the coolant indicating exhaust and coolant mix, no smoke nothing just oil running down the block.
Anyone have a related issue?
Thanks
James Blue
