webjohn

is it possible that leaking valve cover gaskets leak to the control arms and a/c compressor. cuz thats wut my friend told me wen he diagnosed my car. that the valve cover leak was leaking all the way down there. is that possible?

internetautomar

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it could if it's leaking badly enough

dralucard

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yep, mine is doing the same thing. now i have to replace the control arms. well, i would replace them anyway because i have 185k.

BlackMamba

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Funny, im having the same deal on my car, but i replaced the valve covers more than a year ago, and still have to trace the source. I really dont know where is coming from.

JtzMax

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Upper oil pan gasket. My guess anyway.

You sure it's not compressor oil? Does your A/C work ok still ???? If it's a valve cover gasket, you can usually smell the oil burning off of the head / block. If you can't smell any oil (on a hot engine) then it may not be your valve cover leaking .... jack the car up and look underneeth and look at the oil pan gasket(s).

webjohn

nah i dont think its compressor oil because my a/c is ice cold. dont think im smelling burning oil. im going to take pictures and post them. if you look by the timing chain cover where theres a sensor looking thing coming out of it it looks fluid stained. and allitle lower also. when i look from underneath the car the p/s lines are drenched and all around them also (its not p/s fluid because even though the resivior is low it hasnt got any lower since ive had the car[about 5 months]).