New guy here with a question
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New guy here with a question
HI, I have owned a few of these over the years and recently just picked up a 95 F-250. It has a nice fisher hydraulic plow on it and appears to not have been beat to death, it was basically used on 1 site and not on salted roads. it was also garage kept so there is no body rust. there is a utility body on back.
I have some things to do to get it up to speed but my biggest concern is this.
It is leaking a good amount of oil underneath. It has 100K miles on it and it is the 351 engine with a auto trans. 4x4.
The owner said he was unsure but prob a rear main seal. any thoughts? also what is a fair price to pay for this repair? I never had one of these done before.
I have to climb around on it tomorrow, maybe a valve cover?
This may help......after shut down when parked a lot of oil was dripping on the cardboard i placed underneath.
thanks
I have some things to do to get it up to speed but my biggest concern is this.
It is leaking a good amount of oil underneath. It has 100K miles on it and it is the 351 engine with a auto trans. 4x4.
The owner said he was unsure but prob a rear main seal. any thoughts? also what is a fair price to pay for this repair? I never had one of these done before.
I have to climb around on it tomorrow, maybe a valve cover?
This may help......after shut down when parked a lot of oil was dripping on the cardboard i placed underneath.
thanks
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Could be a few things.
Rusted oil pan(typical for these trucks to rust out under the paint).
Pan gasket squished out and allowing oil to run out(had to fix two of my trucks for this. Was able to loosen bolts, slip gasket back in and snug bolts. Stayed dry since.)
Valve cover gaskets. PITA having to dismantle intake to get to passenger side cover.
Intake gasket. More work(spending time cleaning all that old gasket off the heads is a bear--been there).
Time to get under there and clean up things and see where it comes from.
Rear seal? Could be, but not as common in my opinion.
Rusted oil pan(typical for these trucks to rust out under the paint).
Pan gasket squished out and allowing oil to run out(had to fix two of my trucks for this. Was able to loosen bolts, slip gasket back in and snug bolts. Stayed dry since.)
Valve cover gaskets. PITA having to dismantle intake to get to passenger side cover.
Intake gasket. More work(spending time cleaning all that old gasket off the heads is a bear--been there).
Time to get under there and clean up things and see where it comes from.
Rear seal? Could be, but not as common in my opinion.
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