F!!!! Oil Leak... - ZR-1 Net Registry Forums

Daniel_Mc · 05-17-2011

Ok, I just got the ZR-1 home yesterday and unloaded and went to fuel it up and take a short spin since I didn?t get to do much driving at Bowling Green this past weekend. I went from my home, about a mile, to the fuel station and from there about 3 miles until I stopped. During the last mile I thought I smelled something however everything was reading normal and sounded normal (I was not beating on the car it wasn?t even up to temp yet). I pulled into another station just to check (I am paranoid a lot of times over things). Well when I did I noticed an oil trail behind the car. I had been under the car at The Gathering and it was clean with no leaks and the trailer is dry and the spot where I parked the ZR-1 in the shop is also dry as well. After it sat for about 3 to 5 minutes I rolled it forward to get a good idea of how much was leaking, below is some pictures of what I had. I have been searching the forums and found where a oil low pressure sensor could cause a leak but I do not know if it would be to this magnitude. Would this be an oil cooler line possibly? The Oil filter is dry along with the pan the only oil on the pan is what was blown there. The leak appears to be coming from the front right side of the motor. Could this be what I am looking for?
GM Part # is: 12555492
Oil temp sensor - 90-91 10096136
Oil pressure ECM ? 25036935

This is the best picture I could find (Thanks Jeffvette) would this be the sensor barely visiable at the bottom?

Thanks,

05-17-2011	#1
Daniel_Mc Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Pineville, LA Posts: 586	F!!!! Oil Leak... Ok, I just got the ZR-1 home yesterday and unloaded and went to fuel it up and take a short spin since I didn?t get to do much driving at Bowling Green this past weekend. I went from my home, about a mile, to the fuel station and from there about 3 miles until I stopped. During the last mile I thought I smelled something however everything was reading normal and sounded normal (I was not beating on the car it wasn?t even up to temp yet). I pulled into another station just to check (I am paranoid a lot of times over things). Well when I did I noticed an oil trail behind the car. I had been under the car at The Gathering and it was clean with no leaks and the trailer is dry and the spot where I parked the ZR-1 in the shop is also dry as well. After it sat for about 3 to 5 minutes I rolled it forward to get a good idea of how much was leaking, below is some pictures of what I had. I have been searching the forums and found where a oil low pressure sensor could cause a leak but I do not know if it would be to this magnitude. Would this be an oil cooler line possibly? The Oil filter is dry along with the pan the only oil on the pan is what was blown there. The leak appears to be coming from the front right side of the motor. Could this be what I am looking for? GM Part # is: 12555492 Oil temp sensor - 90-91 10096136 Oil pressure ECM ? 25036935 This is the best picture I could find (Thanks Jeffvette) would this be the sensor barely visiable at the bottom? Thanks, __________________ [COLOR=black]Daniel McGuffee [/COLOR] [B]1989[/B] Red Coupe #10166 [COLOR=black][B]1989 [/B]Black[/COLOR][COLOR=black] Coupe #23990[/COLOR] [COLOR=black][B]1991[/B] ZR-1 White #1639[/COLOR] [COLOR=red]FRANK APPROVED ZR-1[/COLOR] [B][COLOR=red][COLOR=black]1996[/COLOR] G[/COLOR][COLOR=blue]rand[/COLOR] [COLOR=red]S[/COLOR][COLOR=blue]port[/COLOR][/B] [COLOR=black]Coupe #564[/COLOR] ======================================== "It's not about the car, it's about the people..." DJ Don't forget to support your [URL="http://corvettemuseum.com/"]National Corvette Museum[/URL]!!!