Dumping all this oil in the truck is getting expensive (although easier to handle then a mechanic’s bill to replace the seal). excavators 3164780 Crankshaft Rear Main Seal & Wear Sleeve Installer. I didn’t post this for sympathy though, but to hopefully get out my situation and have someone know of some “magical fix” that will get us along for the time being. Cummins ISX Engine Assembly 525 N14+ 525 hp, RTLO16-9-13A 1997 Vans Aircraft RV-6. And this is our only vehicle right now because MY car (my wife drives the Durango as her daily driver) had its break lines crap out on it and I can’t afford to have THAT fixed either… so it sits. :chevy: :chevy: :chevy: :chevy: :chevy: Proud member 829 of The 3500 Dually Club. not sure why oil that hight for maybe the guage going bad. take the CDR off and clean with brake cleaner or gas just make sure it dry before putting back on. With winter heating season upon us as well as other bills we just can’t drop that kind of money right now. Check your CDR if it drity it make rear main leak. Now I know the ideal thing would be to get the seal replaced (rear main?), but frankly we can’t afford it. Even when we were losing the largest amounts of oil we had pressure.
Once it gets rolling it drops down to 20-40. And the oil pressure when it is not leaking much stays from 20 -60 depending on whether you are idling or driving under load. The truck has always run “hot and cold” so just smelling hot didn’t worry us since all gauges show things are fine. On my 480 ce I have had an oil leak on my port engine since purchasing.It seems to be the rear main seal as it’s leaking from the bell housing and is dark. This should mean that we still have oil in the engine, but I don’t like it and it should not be this way. And now we seem to be going through about 1 ½ quarts of oil a day. So the other day I added ANOTHER “stop leak” application (don’t recall the name but it stated it was more powerful…. But then a day or so later it began again. We put in one “stop leak” application (don’t recall the name) and after a couple days the leak all but went away. Buy New Front Main Crankshaft Oil Seal & Wear Sleeve For Ram 2500 3500 D250 D350 W350 for Cummins 5.9L 1989-2016 3802820: Crankshaft - FREE. We never had to add more than 2 quarts though on most days and on some NONE. We were putting in at least 2 quarts of oil a day when driving the truck any amount (as in ANY amount of driving as long as the engine was running). At one point it was spraying out the bottom of the truck when running. It had a small leak but no drips for quite some time now, but a week or so ago we started to get not only drips but we lose oil bad. Mine (99) has a leak as well and it is troubling to say the least.