One of those Sneaky Leaks?
The way a V-TEC gasket leak snuck up on me was news2me. A tiny, halfway dried up, almost imperceptible oil spot shows up on my garage floor. I check underneath the Ridge and oil is everywhere, even well above the oil filter. Did not wipe anything down and no drops hit the floor for 2 days afterward. So why not more evidence of the leak on the floor?
Rob, my ace mechanic, showed me why. After first cleaning the area to recreate the leak at its origin, nothing turns up. He said oil wouldn’t show up while the engine is hot cuz even a compromised V-TEC gasket, which he suspected, swells with the heat and blocks its own leak…until a cold start the next morning. Then a trickle will start but stop as soon as the engine heats back up again, leaving little deposits that add up over time, one of them eventually landing on your floor. Dad gum, if he wasn’t right. So if he pinpointed it, we nipped the oil leak in the bud … unless it originated from somewhere else. We’ll see.
The way a V-TEC gasket leak snuck up on me was news2me. A tiny, halfway dried up, almost imperceptible oil spot shows up on my garage floor. I check underneath the Ridge and oil is everywhere, even well above the oil filter. Did not wipe anything down and no drops hit the floor for 2 days afterward. So why not more evidence of the leak on the floor?
Rob, my ace mechanic, showed me why. After first cleaning the area to recreate the leak at its origin, nothing turns up. He said oil wouldn’t show up while the engine is hot cuz even a compromised V-TEC gasket, which he suspected, swells with the heat and blocks its own leak…until a cold start the next morning. Then a trickle will start but stop as soon as the engine heats back up again, leaving little deposits that add up over time, one of them eventually landing on your floor. Dad gum, if he wasn’t right. So if he pinpointed it, we nipped the oil leak in the bud … unless it originated from somewhere else. We’ll see.
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