Bad oil leak
Asked by Sweatitout Jan 26, 2018 at 10:16 AM about the 2004 Dodge Neon SXT Sedan FWD
Question type: Maintenance & Repair
My Neon has a massive mystery leak that is
dripping down my oil filter. It has a very slow drip
when off and a pretty heavy drip when idling. I just
did an oil change and eliminated the filter itself as
the cause. Could it possibly be the adapter gasket?
If so, does anyone have a non-mopar number for
it? None of my local stores list it. Or would you
recommend stop leak.
6 Answers
did you make sure you didn't double gasket the oil filter? I would take the filter off and check your work.
Do not use any stop leak in the engine oil. Find the leak and repair it. When did the leak start? After changing oil? If you have the 2.0 engine, according to www.tascaparts.com there is an oil filter adapter seal (likely an o'ring) that goes between the oil filter adapter and the engine block. This could be bad or oil could be leaking out of the oil filter, cam cover or head gasket. It would be handy if you could get it up on a lift and do some close inspection of the leak area to locate it.
Mopar part number is 04777425, but it is discontinued. A local parts store should be able to possibly cross reference this Mopar number.
Sweatitout answered 6 years ago
As far as I can tell, it started at random. Which to me means I didn't notice until it got bad. The source is somewhere above the filter. And I looked into an adapter gasket (Mopar 04884000AA) none of the numbers I found crossed locally. I bought some heavy duty degreaser so I can try and clean up the mess it made. I guess my best bet is going to be UV dye.
